ScienceExperts worry the disease could spread into animals, making it almost impossible to eradicate.BySharon GuynupPublished August 24, 2022• 8 min readA four-year-old Italian greyhound in Paris appears to be the first domestic dog infected with the monkeypox virus. Researchers reported that the animal broke out in suspicious blisters 12 days after its owners developed pus-filled…
Photo: Thaninee Chuensomchit (Shutterstock)It’s best to wash your bedsheets every week or two—but what about the other stuff on your bed? Let’s talk about what I like to call “solid plushy” stuff: Pillows, cushions, stuffed animals, and even comforters rarely draw much attention when you’re cleaning—maybe because they’re annoying to wash. But how often should…
A Whole Foods Market store is seen in Santa Monica, California, U.S. March 19, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comAug 23 (Reuters) - Whole Foods Market was sued on Tuesday by three consumers and an animal welfare nonprofit, in a lawsuit accusing the Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) unit of falsely marketing beef…
Home News Lifes-little-mysteries A cross-section of a sloth's brain displayed in a museum. (Image credit: Jennifer Santolla via Alamy Stock Photo) If terms like "bird brain" and "harebrained" are any indication, animal brains present fascinating and diverse examples of one of the most complex organs known to science. Animal brains differ not only in overall…
The world's deadliest animal is not the great white shark, or the grizzly bear, or even the moose. It's so small you can easily flick it away or even squash it. Yet the mosquito, by spreading pathogens, kills more than a million people every year, and sickens hundreds of millions more. To underscore just how dangerous…
In his new book, David Peña-Guzmán argues that animals that can dream have a sense of self, and therefore a far more complex kind of "animalhood" than we thought possible Life 17 August 2022 By Simon Ings When Animals Dream David Peña-Guzmán Princeton University Press HEIDI the octopus is dreaming. As she sleeps, her skin…
Screenshot: Jaws, Universal/TubiIn the trailer for his new film Beast, opening today, Idris Elba punches a lion. It sounds like the stuff of pulp trash, but the survival thriller/animal attack genre is wide-ranging, encompassing prestigious Oscar bait movies, extreme gore-fests, and lots of low-rent trash (both good and bad).These disparate films are united in exploring…
Woolly mammoths, the iconic giants of the last ice age, went extinct around 4,000 years ago.But one company is trying to revive the species—or at least something resembling it—and the scientist at the head of the project envisions thousands of these animals roaming the Arctic.Colossal Biosciences is a start-up launched by tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm…
You say tomato, we say "yes please" by Kate Gray 3 days ago Image: NintendoIt's almost the end of August, which means it's almost time for Spain's La Tomatina festival, an event in which the residents of Valencian town Buñol throw a bunch of the goopy red fruits at each other until the town square…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If you think about "unraveling the mysteries of the universe," you probably think of physics: astronomers peering through telescopes at distant galaxies, or experimenters smashing particles to smithereens at the Large Hadron Collider. When biologists try to unravel deep mysteries of life, we too tend to reach for physics. But our…
