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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Science behind perfect pasta sauce, pizza-eating lizards, drunk bats win 2025 Ig Nobel prizes

Research into cooking the perfect pasta sauce, another probing the types of pizza lizards liked to eat, and a study wondering whether painting cows with stripes protected them from flies are among the winners of the 2025 Ig Nobel prize, awarded for comical scientific achievement.

The Ig Nobel prizes, given every September, honour quirky scientific achievements that first “make people laugh, then think”.

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