Painting zebra stripes on cows to fend off flies, lizards’ favourite pizza toppings and how booze helps you speak another language: these were some of the winners at the Ig Nobel prizes, which celebrate the sillier side of science.

The 35th edition of the annual awards, which are organised by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research, were held just a few weeks before the real Nobel prizes.

Here are the 10 prize winners, which were announced at a raucous ceremony at Boston University on Thursday night.

– Painting stripes on cows –

A team of Japanese researchers won the Ig Nobel biology prize for showing that painting zebra stripes on cows meant that flies were less likely to bite them.

While one of the researchers accepted the award, his colleagues buzzed sticks bearin

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