Animal world
Why is the python heart twice its size?
High levels of fatty acids, or lipids, in the blood of reptiles make their hearts and other organs nearly double after fracturing durable bonds, experiments show.
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Animal world
Too hungry, snakes eat their hearts
Some snakes can survive without food for two years, by digesting their own hearts, a new study reveals. Others survive by hatching their heads to increase their chances…
Animal world
Stroking helps pets relax
Researchers know why pets often show signs of relaxation and enjoyment when being cared for and cuddled by people. Research also suggests how people should comfort the a…
Animal world
Penguins run on conveyor
This grotesque game is not to reduce fat, but to help scientists track the effects of overfishing. Instead of meshing and counting the number of fish to see if they have…
Animal world
The desert antelope shrinks the heart and liver for survival
In order to survive in the arid and hot desert in Saudi Arabia, antelopes have adopted a strange strategy: they shrink the size of the heart and liver, the two parts nee…
Animal world
More than 300 chickens died of heart attack because ... terrifying this language
Recently, in Guangxi, China had a rare story, a heart-attack chicken flock of 364 children died because of a fear of heart attack by a helicopter, died on the spot.
Scientific application
Successful farming of striped fish
More than 150 indigenous fish species include the striped grouper (Rasbora trilineata), the rock heart (Rasbora paviana) lia thia (Betta splendens) which has just been r…
Environment
Air pollution can change the structure of the heart
Breathing in a cubic meter of PM2.5 dust contaminated in the air or just breathing every 10 micrograms per cubic meter of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) will increase the heart…
Environment
Tighten your heart in front of a dead bird on a remote island
Documentary footage of the tight plastic garbage in the bodies of decaying birds on a remote Pacific island has caused many witnesses to freak.
Environment
PM2.5 fine dust pollution: Invisible killer
In this article, we will take a look at some scientific studies about the harms of fine dust PM2.5 when they enter the human body.
Environment
Making a 3D map in the Earth's heart, revealing the path of lava
By tracking the path of 273 strong seismic events over the past 20 years, scientists at UC Berkeley have for the first time created a 3D map of the structure inside the…
Environment
Typhoon Linfa entered Taiwan
Earlier, the heart of Typhoon Linfa in the northwestern coast of Luzon Island (Philippines) maintained a maximum wind speed of 90 km per hour (level 9). There are two ty…
Environment
New Delhi - the most polluted city in the world
After heart disease, air pollution is the second largest cause of death in India and the capital of New Delhi is called the most polluted city in the world.
Environment
Heart with the sight of aircraft struck by lightning under the rainbow
Photographer Birk Mobius accidentally recorded the moment when the cargo plane was struck by lightning.
Environment
The 'alien' graveyard in the heart of the African desert
To Namib-Naukluft Park (Namibia), visitors encounter strange scenery like on other planets. That is the scene