Hi to Nobel Prize winners 2025 Ig
Does alcohol increase Foreign language mastery? Do west African lizards have a preferential pizza? And can the painting of cows with zebra stripes help to eliminate carbonated flies? These and other unusual research questions tonight were honored at a virtual ceremony to announce 2025 annual Ig Nobel annual awards. Yes, again it is the time of the year, when serious and stupid convergence – for science.
Founded in 1991, Ig Nobel Prizes are a good -natured imitation of the Nobel Prize. They respect “the achievements that first laugh and then think about. Campy illegal prizes include miniature operas, scientific showcases and 7/7 lectures, where experts should explain their work twice: once in 24 seconds and second in seven words.
Admission lectures are limited to 60 seconds. And as the slogan finds, respected research may seem ridiculous at first glance, but that does not mean that it is free of scientific competencies. In the following weeks, the winners also provide free public negotiations, which are being submitted to the website of the research impossible.
No more harassment, here the winners of the Nobel 2025 IG Awards.
Biology
Photo: Tomoki Kojima et al., 2019
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Any dairy farmer can tell you that carbonated flies are a pest waterfall for cow’s herds, which is why he often sees cows throwing their heads, stamping his feet, rotating his tail and twisting their skin – he hardly tries. There is also an economic cost because it causes cows to be fabricated and feeding less, to bed for shorter times and start collecting together, which increases heat stress and causes damage to animals. This leads to less milk function for dairy cows and less beef function than feed cows.
Do you know who does not bother to bite the flies? Scientists have long discussed the performance of the distinct black stripe pattern. Is that for camouflage? Possible hunters confusing? Or does it repel these annoying flies? Tomoki Kojima et al. He decided to test the second hypothesis and paint the zebra strips on six Japanese black cows at the Aichi Agricultural Research Center in Japan. They used water -induced lacquers that were washed after a few days, so cows can turn in three different groups: zebra strips, only black strips or road -free strips (as control).
