Compared to other senses, our sense of smell is often overlooked. Our noses can alert us to risks such as rotten food, gas leaks and burning toast. But for advanced tasks such as detecting bombs or contraband, or diseases ...
Biotechnology
Dec 15, 2022
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New research findings have shown that employees who work with animals gain an unintended benefit—developing greater compassion. The research from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School suggests that ...
Social Sciences
May 23, 2022
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Cambodian anti-landmine authorities are training dogs to sniff out COVID-19, hoping the sharp-nosed canines normally used to detect underground explosives can keep the virus on a tight leash.
Veterinary medicine
Sep 29, 2021
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The idea of cute puppy dogs playing a role in leading us out of this pandemic is about as tantalizing a story anyone could conjure up right now.
Veterinary medicine
Jun 4, 2021
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A red beetle, classed as the most destructive date palm pest, causes millions of dollars of annual economic losses worldwide. Now, a small team in Saudi Arabia has found a cost-effective approach that uses laser pulses to ...
Optics & Photonics
May 5, 2020
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Just like humans, dogs are sometimes born with impaired hearing or experience hearing loss as a result of disease, inflammation, aging or exposure to noise. Dog owners and K-9 handlers ought to keep this in mind when adopting ...
Veterinary medicine
Mar 5, 2020
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Sniffer dogs, drones and electrified fences: Germany is deploying a full array of defences to stop boars from bringing swine fever into the country and avert a disaster for its thriving pork industry.
Veterinary medicine
Dec 11, 2019
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Schools and tourist attractions across the San Francisco Bay Area were shut Friday as smoke from California's deadliest ever wildfire a three hour drive away produced air quality levels worse than in polluted megacities in ...
Environment
Nov 16, 2018
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A team of scientists has provided the first evidence that dogs can learn to categorise odours and apply this to scents they have never encountered before.
Plants & Animals
Dec 13, 2017
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Australian quarantine authorities on Thursday urged travelers through Asia to avoid bringing in hitchhiking amphibians after a passenger arrived at an airport with a dead Indonesian toad in his shoe.
Plants & Animals
May 11, 2017
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