News tagged with straw house
University has grand designs to build a house of straw (w/ Video)
Could straw houses be the buildings of the future? That's what researchers at the University of Bath will be testing this summer by constructing a "BaleHaus" made of prefabricated straw bale and hemp cladding ...
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Study shows chimps able to understand needs of others
(PhysOrg.com) -- By setting up a unique experiment, a small team of researchers has found that chimpanzees are able to understand need in other chimps, despite their general disinclination to offer aid when ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Research uncovers what increases chicken wellbeing
Researchers from the University of Bristol's School of Veterinary Sciences have concluded that the wellbeing of barn chickens is increased if they have activity objects, perches and other stimulation.
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Landsat image maps aid fire recovery efforts
NASA satellite images regularly map active fires around the world. Once a fire is out, satellite data and maps are also used by scientists to measure and protect the scorched land, and have played an important ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Cabbage gelder, cut throat of pigs, or man trap?
Faced with filling in the 2011 census form plenty of people will be tempted to put frivolous answers into the boxes asking for details about their lives. 200 years ago, a Norfolk vicar had similar ideas.
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Smell, close your eyes, remember: chefs teach kids to taste
Chef Frederic Simonin dangles a fragrant green bunch of dill in front of a classroom of schoolkids in a multi-ethnic corner of Paris: "And what about this? Any idea what it is?"
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Distinguishing 'senior moments' from Alzheimer's
With the help of volunteers aged 18 to 89, UC Irvine researchers have identified for the first time in humans a long-hidden part of the brain called the perforant path. Scientists have struggled for decades to locate the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 10, 2010 |
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Shuttle Atlantis undocks from space station
(AP) -- After a week of flying together, shuttle Atlantis undocked from a larger and virtually completed International Space Station on Sunday and headed for home on its final voyage.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 23, 2010 |
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Gorilla goes under the knife for cataract repair
The patient was a 42-year-old, 160-pound grandmother with thick bilateral cataracts that had left her nearly blind, markedly diminishing her quality of life.
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Study looks at turning manure into revenues
(PhysOrg.com) -- Livestock manure isn't often thought of as a value-added product, but researchers at Montana State University and MSU Extension are trying to change that.
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Dividing cells 'feel' their way out of warp
Every moment, millions of a body's cells flawlessly divvy up their genes and pinch perfectly in half to form two identical progeny for the replenishment of tissues and organs -- even as they collide, get stuck, ...
Sep 10, 2009 |
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