Measuring an animal's pain
A new device designed by engineers and veterinarians at Massey University seeks to change the way we understand animal pain, starting with sheep.
Plants & Animals
Jul 26, 2017
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Cooling curtain made of a porous triple-layer membrane—alternative to electrically powered air conditioning
Climate change is leading to ever higher temperatures and aridity in many areas, making efficient room cooling increasingly important. An ETH doctoral student at the Functional Materials Laboratory has developed an alternative ...
Materials Science
Jul 26, 2017
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In longitudinal studies, dried blood spot samples have a role to play
Longitudinal studies of disease require collecting biofluids, preferentially blood. But getting serum blood samples takes the work of a professional, and storing thousands of such samples at -80 degrees C means using a lot ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 26, 2017
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Study projects deaths from heat and cold for 10 U.S. metros through 2090
A new study projects that if climate change continues unabated, heat-related deaths will rise dramatically in 10 major U.S. metropolitan areas compared to if the predicted increase in global warming is substantially curbed ...
Environment
Jul 26, 2017
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Researchers prove existence of unique but ill-fated New Zealand black swan
New Zealand once had its own species of black swan but, like the moa, it was hunted to extinction soon after humans arrived in the late 13th century.
Plants & Animals
Jul 26, 2017
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Conductivity key to mapping water inside Earth
Hydrogen at elevated temperature creates high electrical conductivity in the Earth's mantle.
Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2017
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Physics discovery unlocks ingredients of 2-D 'sandwich'
Everything that exists in the digital world—photos, tweets, online courses, this article—is stored as 1's and 0's. At the software level, this information is written as computer code. At the hardware level, that code ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 26, 2017
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Protein crystals grown in microgravity could yield antidotes for nerve agents
On a balmy evening in early June, Space X launched the Falcon 9 rocket, which ferried the Dragon spacecraft toward the International Space Station (ISS). As the Dragon broke the tethers of Earth's gravity three small, black ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 26, 2017
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Image: Spectacular aurora from orbit
Expedition 52 Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA shared photos and time-lapse video of a glowing green aurora seen from his vantage point 250 miles up, aboard the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
Jul 26, 2017
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NASA solves a drizzle riddle
A new NASA study shows that updrafts are more important than previously understood in determining what makes clouds produce drizzle instead of full-sized raindrops, overturning a common assumption.
Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2017
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