Ig Nobel Prize winners include zebra cows and pizza-loving lizards

Every year, a scientific - but also very silly - award is given out for strange, funny, and surprising discoveries. It's called the Ig Nobel Prize, and its creator Marc Abrahams says: "Every Ig Nobel prize winner has done something that first makes people laugh, and then makes them think." The 'Ig' is not short for Instagram, but is a pun on the word 'ignoble', which means not honourable or lower in status. The name deliberately sounds like 'Nobel Prize', the very serious award given for amazing discoveries in science,...