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Page last updated at 16:08 GMT, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:08 UK

Cow name study wins Ig Nobel prize

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A team of UK academics has won the 2009 Ig Nobel prize for veterinary medicine for work which showed cows with names produce more milk than those which remain unnamed.

The aim of the awards is to honour achievements that "first make people laugh and then make them think".

Dr Peter Rowlinson, who works at the University of Newcastle with his colleague Dr Catherine Douglas, spoke to Carolyn Quinn on BBC Radio 4's PM programme about the award.

Radio 4's PM programme reports the day's news Monday to Saturday from 5pm.

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