Italian team wins 'spoof' Nobel Prize for perfect pasta sauce
An Italian team won the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize for Cacio e Pepe, a Roman pasta dish. Fabrizio Olmeda, a physicist at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, and his colleagues created the perfect sauce scientifically, earning the award. The Ig Nobel Prize, a satirical prize awarded annually since 1991, honours research that makes people laugh and think.