Could lab-grown meat pave the way for more ethical, environmentally friendly food?
"No animals were harmed in the making of this burger."
Biotechnology
Nov 22, 2022
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Jordan Peele's 'Nope' shines spotlight on animal work in entertainment
It is a horse named Ghost who first signals that something is awry in the sky in Jordan Peele's latest visually and thematically ambitious film Nope. OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) is the head wrangler of Heywood Hollywood Horses, an ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 9, 2022
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The case for speaking politely to animals
How we speak matters to animals. Horses, pigs and wild horses can distinguish between negative and positive sounds from their fellow species and near relatives, as well as from human speech, according to new research in behavioral ...
Plants & Animals
May 24, 2022
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Octopus farms raise huge animal welfare concerns - and they're unsustainable too
When you imagine an octopus's world, you might well see a curious creature in a complex undersea environment.
Ecology
Mar 24, 2022
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Introduced species are animals too: Why the debate over compassionate conservation is worth having
Wild horses roaming the Snowy Mountains have long been the subject of fierce debate. Some say they're feral pests destroying Kosciuszko National Park's fragile native ecosystem. Others argue they're national icons and an ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2022
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First human-monkey embryos created: A small step toward a huge ethical problem
Scientists have created the world's first monkey embryos containing human cells in an attempt to investigate how the two types of cell develop alongside each other. The embryos, which were derived from a macaque and then ...
Biotechnology
Apr 22, 2021
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Veterinary behavior expert demystifyies feline behavior
They know their names. We can read their facial expressions, sort of. And some of them really like having us around. These are among the purported findings of recent scientific studies aimed at deciphering the behavior of ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 20, 2020
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Japanese scientists embrace creepy-crawlies
Firms in Japan are changing people's perceptions about common spiders, worms and insect larvae. These seemingly unwanted creatures have unique features that could be useful for many applications that benefit humans, according ...
Other
Jul 17, 2019
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Meat is masculine: how food advertising perpetuates harmful gender stereotypes
The UK Advertising Standards Authority has introduced a new rule in its advertising code which bans adverts which feature gender stereotypes "that are likely to cause harm, or serious or widespread offence."
Social Sciences
Jun 19, 2019
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New algorithm allows for faster, animal-free chemical toxicity testing
The use of animals to test the toxicity of chemicals may one day become outdated thanks to a low-cost, high-speed algorithm developed by researchers at Rutgers and other universities.
Biochemistry
Apr 16, 2019
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