Japanese scientists who painted cows with zebra stripes to keep flies at bay have been awarded a parody Nobel Prize.

A team of Japanese researchers has been honored with an Ig Nobel Prize for its study which was aimed at finding out whether cows painted with zebra-like stripes could avoid being bitten by flies.

A group of 11 Japanese scientists won the Ig Nobel prize in biology on Thursday for their experiment showing that painting ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. There’s a reason fashion designers look to animal prints for inspiration. Creatures have evolved a dizzying array of patterns: stripes, spots ...

Those distinctive stripes might not be camouflage after all. JOE PENNEY/Reuters/Corbis How did zebras get their stripes? There’s no way to look back into evolutionary history and pinpoint the reason ...

Footballers wearing striped kits may have an advantage over their opponents because the pattern quickly becomes blurry when it's moving. That's according to scientists at Newcastle University, who ...

The same physical process that helps to remove dirt from laundry could explain how tropical fish and other patterned animals get their spots, according to new research. Published in Science Advances, ...

More than 70 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a mechanism that explained how patterns could emerge from bland uniformity. Scientists are still using his model—and adding new twists—to ...