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Science: researchers awarded at 'Ig Nobel' awards

Researchers have been awarded for comic scientific achievement at the 'Ig Nobel' awards in Boston. Among the honorees were a group that painted cows with stripes in a bid to stop flies biting them.

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00:00From painting cows and zebra-like stripes in a bid to prevent flies from biting them,
00:05to pondering the kinds of feats and lizards prefer to eat.
00:10These are among the experiments carried out by researchers hailed at the Ig Nobel Award in Boston.
00:16The accolade is a comic scientific achievement.
00:19Honoured in ten categories, the winners also had a group of Europe that discovered that drinking alcohol sometimes heightens a person's ability to speak a foreign language.
00:31A researcher who analysed fingernails for decades.
00:35It marks the 35th edition of the festival events, which was also attended by winners of the real Nobel Prize themselves.
00:42There's molium and helium and hapnium and urbium and phosphorus and fratium and fluorine and terbium and manganese and mercury and malibnium and magnesium.
00:48Such new gear for that kind of thing, apparently.
00:51What to eat, we've got to feed our gums.
00:57But what to eat, oh what to eat, that should be very...
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