Trauma affects animals much as it does people, say veterinarians at Colorado State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital, who offer tips on the importance of routines, including play time and meals, and such therapies ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2012
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Climate change has impacted on upland plants and vegetation over the past half century, new evidence from north west Scotland has revealed.
Ecology
Jun 21, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Any nanometer-sized sample exposed to the intense X-ray pulses of SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source is quickly ionized – stripped of electrons – and soon explodes. The trick is to collect ...
General Physics
Jun 21, 2012
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Chimpanzees living in small fragments of forest close by people and farm animals are turning in increasing numbers to natural remedies in an effort to deal with their stressful and disease-prone existence, a new study suggests.
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2012
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About 40 percent of the solar energy reaching Earth’s surface lies in the near-infrared region of the spectrum — energy that conventional silicon-based solar cells are unable to harness. But a new kind of all-carbon ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 21, 2012
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A little less than 2 billion years ago, metals including copper, molybdenum and zinc became available to primitive cells, at the same time that the cells began to become much more complex. Scientists indicate that they have ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 21, 2012
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Trying to curl hair into perfect spiral curls is difficult enough to do in real life but for the team of scientists and artists at Pixar the quest to create a wild mane of curls for Merida, the redheaded heroine of their ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 21, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Companies paying celebrities big money to endorse their products may not realize that negative perceptions about a celebrity are more likely to transfer to an endorsed brand than are positive ones, according ...
Social Sciences
Jun 21, 2012
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In 2011, China surpassed the United States to become the world’s biggest smartphone market, selling an estimated 23.9 million units in that year’s third quarter. Earlier this month, ...
Economics & Business
Jun 21, 2012
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Individual rights may be coming second to a notion of 'collective security' as agencies ramp up their use of information obtained through coercive means, a University of Melbourne study has warned.
Social Sciences
Jun 21, 2012
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