Treating salmonella infections in poultry is rapidly becoming one of the most important methods of increasing food security. Working towards that end, a team of Canadian researchers was recently able to isolate a microorganism in the Arctic that may be of help.
Investigators at the University of Victoria, led by mi... |
5 March 2012
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The US Navy spares no efforts to display an eco-conscious attitude. It has previously announced its commitment to algae-based biofuels and now it is also eager to experience a green boost provided by inedible animal byproducts, like chicken fat and beef tallow.
This strategy comes as an effective response to preside... |
7 December 2011
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Using the latest state of the art supercomputer, British researchers actually found the answer to this timeless question: the chicken! Researchers from Sheffield and Warwick Universities used the High End Computing Terascale Resource (or HECTOR), a supercomputer of the UK Science Research Council, in Edinburgh.Yes, t... |
16 July 2010
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In a new scientific study, researchers have learned that farm fowls best humans when it comes to their perception of color. The investigation revealed that, regardless of the actual size of their brains, the animals can perceive a wider and more accurate range of colors than the human eye ever could. The researchers ... |
17 February 2010
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Hydrogen is, at this point, the leading source of alternative fuel in the world. Its potential to power up the cars and vehicles of tomorrow is only limited by the fact that there are currently no materials able to hold vast amounts of hydrogen. This is necessary for giving the vehicles a range similar to that they h... |
24 June 2009
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Fancy making a dinosaur from a chicken! IT may sound far-fetched, but it's actually not, as evidenced by the fact that leading paleontologists around the globe are currently teaming up to create a creature literally unlike anything the world has ever seen. They are going to come up with a chicken-dinosaur hybrid... |
6 March 2009
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In 2005, a team of paleontologists rushed to claim that they had discovered soft tissue in a dinosaur fossil belonging to a Tyrannosaurus rex that lived more than 65 million years ago. Now, a new study contests the findings of the previous one by revealing that the so-called soft tissue sample is in fact only a biofi... |
30 July 2008
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White beans get their name from their light color, are rich in cancer-fighting nutrients (such as iron, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium) and the calorie count easily fits within most diets. You can use any variety of beans for this recipe, navy beans, marrow beans and Great Northern beans included. Here is a tast... |
29 May 2008
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Inspired by the "movie within the movie" finale of Walt Disney Pictures’ box office hit film "Chicken Little," Disney’s Chicken Little: Ace in Action features Ace, the superhero alter ego of Chicken Little, and the Hollywood versions of his misfit band of friends: Runt, Abby and Fish-Out-of-Water. The crew faces off ... |
26 October 2007
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If bonsai proved that the Japanese people can handle the art of "dwarfism", with Onagadori cocks they show how they can deal with gigantism, too. Onagadori ("Honourable Fowl" in Japanese) is a breed of domestic chicken and the cocks can have a tail reaching 10 m! This is an unchallengeable record amongst birds and pe... |
24 July 2007
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Chicken preceded Christopher Columbus when it comes to setting foot in America. We know Vikings stepped into the New World too, but they were not the first outsiders. Recently dug chicken bones on the coast of Chile have been dated before Columbus' "discovery" of America and their DNA matched fowls breeds of Pol... |
5 June 2007
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Hens mate in the morning in male-dominated groups of chickens to avoid an evening of "sexual harassment" from amorous cockerels, according to a new research. People say that birds - and especially chickens - generally have little intelligence. But researchers have found that hens juggle sexually with the males at the... |
16 May 2007
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This is the symbol of death. Since Middle Ages, arsenic and its compounds are known as especially powerful toxins. In large doses, arsenic impairs ATP production and the citric acid cycle, thus inhibiting cell respiration while increased hydrogen peroxide rises the oxidative stress. Arsenic poisoning is induces by mu... |
10 April 2007
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