Scientists who studied whether painting a cow with stripes reduces fly bites and which pizza toppings various lizards prefer were among the winners of the 2025 Ig Nobel awards.

Garry Linnell is one of Australia’s most experienced journalists. He has won several awards for his writing, including a ...

Matthew King loves it when the wheels start turning for a kid – both the metaphoric mental wheels and the very literal one ...

It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t matter to Duncan MacDougall. In the early 20th century, MacDougall’s unique, purpose-built scale was ready to ...

Sharks, apex predators of the ocean, exhibit a peculiar trance-like state called tonic immobility when inverted, rendering ...

Almost eight decades after Colin Wyatt stole and then vandalized thousands of precious Australian butterfly specimens, ...