Lizards love pizza, especially the four cheeses

Repainting the cows in zebras so that the flies leave them alone, or cooking in the Italian without lumps: the anti-nobel 2025 again celebrated scientific research in a fun way.

This competition, baptized Ig-Nobel-word game on “ignoble” in English-rewards “achievements that first laugh, then make them think”.

Here are the ten winners of the 35th edition, whose awards ceremony was held in public, in Boston, the United States, on the night of Thursday to Friday, one month from the real Nobel.

It was Italians who were rewarded in physics for a study with small onions: how to avoid the formation of lumps during the preparation of a Cacio E Pepe sauce.

“You imagine that these works confirm all the stereotypes on the Italians, especially that we only think of the kitchen, but that is not true,” defended one of the laureates, sporting a chef’s chef.

William B. Bean, who died in 1989, devoted a good part of his life to work on his own nails. For 35 years, this researcher has measured, recorded and published texts relating to their growth every 5 to 10 years.

“He was making a small brand” on his nails “then observed them carefully while they were pushing,” said his son Bennett, who came to seek the anti-nobel of literature.

What happens to a narcissist when he is told that he is intelligent? This is the object of the study by a team of Polish-Canadian-Australian researchers.

“If you are extraordinary and you know, hit your hands,” launched the winners of this anti-Bobel of Psychology to the public.

So the lizards eat pizzas. This is at least what they are said to be researchers observing lizards hoping out of dishes in hotels in Togo.

They even pushed their appetite for knowledge to the point of determining that the four cheeses was their favorite. An anti-nutrition anti-nubel to savor.

The anti-pediatric anti-nobel has rewarded work on what the breastfed babies feel when their mothers eat … garlic.

And, surprised, “infants appreciated the taste of garlic,” said one of the winners.

A team of Japanese researchers won the anti-Biology anti-component by showing that repainting cows with stripes, like zebras, allowed them to protect themselves from flies.

While one of the researchers received the award, his colleagues began to turn around him with false flies on signs, until he removes his jacket to reveal a shirt with zebra stripes.

Drinking alcohol – but in lower quantity than a pint of beer – allows you to better speak a foreign language.

The team of German-Néerlando-British scientists who won the peace anti-nobel had this idea by noting that “the Saoul Germans pronounce Dutch better than sober Germans”.

This time, it was the bats that were the subject of the research of the winners of the aviation anti-component. They have shown their inability to fly after ingesting alcohol via their fermented fruit diet.

“The problem is that bats love alcohol,” they said.

The anti-chemistry anti-guy was awarded to a team wishing to know if swallowing teflon-this chemical coating used in non-stick kitchen utensils-allowed them to eat their hunger without taking calories.

The Indian winners received the engineering anti-component for having succeeded in proving that the shoes feeling bad affect the positive experience linked to the use of a scales.

And that, thanks to the help of “courageous human noses”, they said.