The most bizarre scientific studies awarded at IG Nobel 2025: Can alcohol use help in foreign languages?
Tomoki Kojima, one of the Japanese researchers awarded at IG Nobel 2025 for the study of cows in zebra stripes: Keichi Nakane / AP / Profimedia
The lizards that eat pizza, the garlic in breast milk and the nail growth rate were among the topics addressed in a series of less common studies that have been rewarded with this year IG Nobel prizes on Thursday, at a ceremony held in Boston, DPA and Agerpres inform.
IG Nobel Awards – awarded annually by scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research -they have reached its 35th edition and reward unusual scientific achievements that “make people laugh and then think.”
The annual gala, which this year had the theme Digestia, attracted about 1,000 spectators and again benefited from the presence of Nobel laureates.
A team from Nigeria, Togo, Italy and France won the Nobel IG prize for a study that examined the preferences of lizards for certain types of pizza.
In the field of pediatrics, researchers in an American team were rewarded for a study on the effects of garlic consumption on breastfed infants.
The late American scientist William Bean received the Literature Prize because he meticulously recorded the growth rate of one of his nails for 35 years.
German researchers Fritz Renner and Jessica Werthmann have won the Peace Prize as they have shown that alcohol can sometimes help improve the ability to speak foreign languages. Fritz Renner said the idea came to them while talking to a glass during a conference in Vienna.
Jessica Werthmann stressed that she and her colleague do not encourage alcohol consumption, adding that this prize is matching their intention to arouse laughter and reflection.
Researchers from the prestigious Max Planck Institute in Germany, awarded at IG Nobel 2025
Among the other winners of 2025 were scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Germany, for their research on why the Easter sauce forms coconuts, Indian engineers who studied the impact of the unpleasant odor of the shoes on the use of the shelves and Japanese biologists who tested some cow. flies.
The prizes were also awarded to the teams that researched the effects of the lingering on the narcissists, the impact of teflon consumption on the feeling of satiety and how alcohol affects the ability of the bats to fly and to orient through environmental.
The IG Nobel Awards are awarded annually before the Nobel prizes announced in Stockholm and Oslo.
This year, the Nobel prizes will be announced on October 6-13.
