Pigeons have eye for paintings: Japan study
Pigeons may sometimes appear to randomly target city sculptures with their droppings, but according to a new Japanese study they also have the potential to become discerning art critics.
Pigeons may sometimes appear to randomly target city sculptures with their droppings, but according to a new Japanese study they also have the potential to become discerning art critics.
Plants & Animals
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As spring phases into summer across the U.S., kids are spending more time outdoors. Playing outside is healthy in all kinds of ways, but it also poses some risks. One that many families may not be aware of is exposure to ...
Environment
Jun 19, 2024
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An NTU research team has successfully developed new methods to create a type of "cool paint" using recycled plastics—namely acrylic, old PVC pipes and polystyrene foam—and barium sulfate, offering a sustainable and efficient ...
Polymers
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A real-world study by researchers at NTU Singapore has shown that the use of cool paint coatings in cities can help pedestrians feel up to 1.5°C cooler, making the urban area more comfortable for work and play. The study ...
Environment
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From Kakadu to Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef, to Sydney Opera House and the convict sites, Australia's list of World Heritage places is incredibly diverse. Each site represents the culture, nature and history of this land, ...
Environment
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Vandalism has once again marred the ancient Indigenous pictographs nestled within Bon Echo Provincial Park about two hours west of Ottawa and north of Kingston, Ont.
Archaeology
Sep 21, 2023
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An Oregon State University-led collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental science.
Ecology
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In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo.
Plants & Animals
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The calls of owls come to me most nights through the open window of my bedroom. Mostly it is the soft, repeated, rhythmic "more … pork, more … pork" of a pair of boobooks.
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2023
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The urge to draw images in sand, or create sand sculptures, seems to be irresistible, as a walk on many a modern beach or dune surface will show. Sand is a vast canvas—and may have been used as one for far longer than people ...
Archaeology
Jul 20, 2023
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