Robots Could Reduce Animal Tests Posted: 11 months ago by mahler87
US scientists are taking the first step towards testing potentially hazardous chemicals on cells grown in a laboratory, without using live animals. High speed robots would make testing faster, cheaper, and more effective, while leaving animals unharmed.
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Ten (10) High Technology Robots That May Change The World Posted: 1 year ago by prinks
Robots have long been the fascination of people throughout the world. Movies have stretched the imagination and science and technology have made some robots a reality. Following are ten high technology robots that may change the world.
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Real-life Transformers: Shape-changing robots could help save lives Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
British scientists will today take the first steps in an astonishing project to create the first real-life Transformers - the science fiction robots which can change shape at will. The £4.6million experiment will attempt to build swarms of tiny robots, each the size of a sugar cube, that move around on their own and connect together to form larger, intelligent machines.
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Testing may kill animals needlessly Posted: 9 months ago by dollyllama
Each year, American doctors inject more than 3 million doses of Botox to temporarily smooth their patients' wrinkles and frown lines. But before each batch is shipped, the manufacturer puts it through one of the oldest and most controversial animal tests available.
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Details of Evolutionary Transition from Fish to Land Animals Revealed Posted: 3 months ago by AutumnLotus
New research has provided the first detailed look at the internal head skeleton of Tiktaalik roseae, the 375-million-year-old fossil animal that represents an important intermediate step in the evolutionary transition from fish to animals that walked on land.
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The cruelty behind animal fur coats Posted: 1 year ago by Leorgathar
Definitely not for the faint-hearted, this video is a sad reality. It shows how skin is removed from animals while still breathing, just to end up as the fur coat in your mom's closet. (Contains strong gory scenes and acts of brutality, you have been warned)
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PETA's Dirty Secret Posted: 12 months ago by direwookiee
While loudly complaining about the "unethical" treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, the group has its own dirty little secret.
PETA kills animals. By the thousands.
(I'm taking this with a grain of salt. I'm not too sure it's true.)
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Animal Cams Posted: 5 months ago by bingo
Smithsonian National Zoo: Animal Cams
Take a virtual field trip to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park where you can see many animal exhibits streamed live through web cams. In addition to viewing the web cams, you'll find Fact Sheets and Photo Galleries that you can explore to learn more about the animals featured on these web cams.
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Illinois Woman Charged With Keeping Hundreds of Dead, Abused Animals on Property Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A Lee County woman pleaded not guilty to 10 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty and not caring for her pets, four days after authorities found more than 200 dead animals scattered on her property, stuffed in the refrigerator, strewn across floors and packed into barrels.
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Should Animals Be Doing More For The Animal Rights Movement? Posted: 11 months ago by tubs
Panelists discuss whether animals should play a more active role in the fight for their rights by participating in marches or organizing boycotts.
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Crazy Scientist’s Corner: Animals Used As Drugs Posted: 1 year ago by maxy
Many of us know that many plants are used to alter brain function, changing for a brief amount of time perception, mood, consciousness and behavior. Scientists extended this research of science to animals and, even though it’s still at the beginning, they came up with some interesting finds. Early scientists and alchemists experimented with all kinds of animals.
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Why Some Animals Eat Their Offspring Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Eating your offspring may sound unthinkable, but animals from fish to birds are known to do it. Scientists have been unsure why such a behavior would have evolved, but a new study sheds light on the factors that may drive some parents to eat their young.
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200 Animals Rescued From Home Posted: 12 months ago by dollyllama
An animal protection group on Friday rescued more than 200 animals, including 26 hissing cockroaches and two bearded dragons, from an eastern Texas home.
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Animal CSI Posted: 2 years ago by VooDooPeacock
Whether it's testing a dog's saliva to see if it mauled a cat or catching a murderer who stepped in pet poo, law enforcement officials are seeing the benefit in applying forensic methods to cases involving animals.
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Robots that are "self-aware" (video) Posted: 1 year ago by fogowar
Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. At the root of this uncanny demo is a deep inquiry into the nature of how humans and living beings learn and evolve, and how we might harness these processes to make things that learn and evolve.
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Key Found to Making Robots Human-Friendly Posted: 1 year ago by DrNothing
Humans revel in touch. Touch-spoiled babies grow up healthier; lovers can't keep their hands off each other; and people who master the subtle touch are perceived as friendlier; and THAT could also be key to making robots accepted by humans as social peers, scientists say. (Is it me, or does that demonstrative pic just look 'wrong')
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Robots Battle Autism Posted: 6 months ago by icepigs
It may not be lasers and explosions like Transformers or Terminator, but Robots are doing battle against autism using bubbles!
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New York Subway Vent Animals Posted: 9 months ago by pocksucket
Vents in New York sidewalks blow gusts of air up to street level each time a subway train goes past. So if you attached an inflatable animal to the vent it would stand up with each gust. Watch it - it will make sense.
Part 2, which is more involved, in the comments.
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New Generation Of Home Robots Have Gentle Touch Posted: 6 months ago by bjk1903
Who doesn’t long for household help at times? Service robots will soon be able to relieve us of heavy, dirty, monotonous or irksome tasks. Research scientists have now presented a new generation of household robots,
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Animal Shelter Sends 'Death Row' Notices Posted: 9 months ago by dollyllama
An Upstate animal shelter is sending out mass e-mails of with pictures of animals scheduled for death in hopes of saving some of their lives.
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Animal Artists Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Many animals make great artists. No, I am not talking about Galoot and Meowza, yes they've been called animals, but I am talking about dolphins, elephants, and the like.
" Animals have been painting in some form since at least the early part of the 20th century. More often than not these were publicity stunts, little more than circus-type acts exploiting the animals. In the early 1960s, a keeper at the San Diego Zoo in California, noting an elephant's natural behavior of drawing in the sand with its trunk, included painting among one of her charges' behavioral enrichment program. This amounted to the elephant pushing a large housepainting brush across a canvas much like a big sweep broom."
Go to the site for the full story and examples of art by real pigs!
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