Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners

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The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes honored unusual research, including studies on alcohol's effect on language fluency, lizard pizza preferences, and using zebra stripes to repel cow flies. The awards, a parody of the Nobel Prizes, celebrate achievements that amuse and provoke thought, featuring quirky presentations and public talks.

This year's Ig Nobel Prizes honor research that makes you laugh, then think. Winners analyzed the physics of cacio e pepe clumping, why zebra-stripes deter flies from cows, and if alcohol improves foreign language skills.