Chicken is a favorite, inexpensive meat across the globe. But the bird's popularity results in a lot of waste that can pollute soil and water. One strategy for dealing with poultry poop is to turn it into biofuel, and now ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 3, 2017
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Chickens were domesticated from Asian jungle fowl around 6000 years ago. Since domestication they have acquired a number of traits that are valuable to humans, including those concerning appearance, reduced aggression and ...
Evolution
May 2, 2017
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Our bodies are constantly under siege by foreign invaders; viruses, bacteria and parasites that want to infiltrate our cells. A new study in the journal eLife sheds light on how germ cells - sperm and egg - protect themselves ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 27, 2017
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Japan deployed hundreds of soldiers to help cull more than 280,000 chickens on Friday, officials said as they try to contain further outbreaks of a highly contagious strain of avian flu.
Ecology
Mar 24, 2017
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Chitosan, a natural carbohydrate derived from crustacean shells, is showing promise as a weapon against a bacterium that annually sickens more than a million people in the United States.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 22, 2017
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New research by University of Arkansas biologists suggests that supplementing the numbers of a threatened species with individuals from other locations might not be as effective for some species as previously thought.
Ecology
Mar 22, 2017
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A third commercial poultry breeding operation in Tennessee has tested positive for avian flu.
Ecology
Mar 16, 2017
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At every moment inside the human body, a carefully choreographed dance is being performed.
General Physics
Mar 15, 2017
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Tens of thousands of chickens have been destroyed at a Tennessee chicken farm due to a bird flu outbreak, and 30 other farms within a six-mile radius have been quarantined.
Ecology
Mar 6, 2017
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Why does holding an egg between two hands and pressing along its long axis make it almost impossible to break? Professor Marc Andre Meyers was first puzzled by this as a child growing up in Brazil. He subsequently proposed ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 26, 2017
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