{"id":3395,"date":"2025-09-19T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/striped-cows-study-takes-home-weird-science-prize\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:48:11","slug":"striped-cows-study-takes-home-weird-science-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/striped-cows-study-takes-home-weird-science-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Striped cows study takes home weird science prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-09-19 15:48:08<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A team of Japanese researchers won an Ig Nobel Prize for spray-painting cows with zebra stripes to reduce fly bites.<BR><br \/>\nLed by Tomoki Kojima, the group taped Japanese beef cows before painting them with black-and-white stripes. <BR><br \/>\nThe experiment showed that flies were less attracted to the striped cows, which also appeared calmer. <BR><br \/>\nSpeaking to Huffington Post, Kojima said: \u201cWhen I did this experiment, I hoped that I would win the Ig Nobel. It\u2019s my dream. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.\u201d <BR><br \/>\nHe accepted the award on stage dressed in stripes, surrounded by colleagues holding cardboard flies.<BR><br \/>\nThe Ig Nobel Prizes, now in their 35th year, recognise unusual scientific achievements that first make people laugh, then think. This year\u2019s ceremony at Boston University included eccentric acts like a mini-opera about digestion and paper airplanes thrown at the stage.<BR><br \/>\nOther winners included a European team studying how alcohol can improve foreign language skills; researchers tracking fingernail growth over decades; Indian scientists investigating if smelly shoes affect shoe rack experiences; a U.S.-Israeli study on whether eating Teflon increases food volume; and Colombian scientists who found bats fly worse when drunk.<BR><br \/>\nFrancisco Sanchez, who led the bat study, said: \u201cIt\u2019s really good. You can see that scientists are not really square and super serious and can have some fun while showing interesting science.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nOne memorable moment came from a team studying the physics of pasta sauce, who appeared in chef\u2019s outfits, fake moustaches, and mozzarella costumes, distributing pasta bowls to Nobel laureates after their performance.<BR><br \/>\nMaster of Ceremonies,  Marc Abrahams said: \u201cEvery great discovery ever, at first glance seemed screwy and laughable. The same is true of every worthless discovery. At the very first glance, who really knows?\u201d<BR><br \/>\nFor Kojima and his striped cows, the win proves science doesn\u2019t have to be serious\u2014and sometimes the strangest ideas win the biggest laughs.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-09-19 15:48:08 A team of Japanese researchers won an Ig Nobel Prize for spray-painting cows with zebra stripes to reduce fly bites. Led by Tomoki Kojima, the group taped Japanese&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}