New technology
Device makes dogs stop barking in 'a snap'.
Dogs that bark loudly and persistently often bother their owners and disrupt the surrounding environment. However, with this special device, the dog will stop barking im…
Bark
Browse ScienceInfo articles and explainers related to Bark.
Topic archive
Articles about Bark
67 published items.
Animal world
The secret of the dog barking on top of the pyramid in Egypt
The dog barking atop the pyramid in Giza, Egypt is named Apollo, part of a litter of eight dogs that currently live atop the Khafre pyramid.
Biology
Poor people in Nepal changed their lives by providing Japanese shrubs to make paper for printing money
A shrub growing on impoverished Nepalese hillsides is providing the raw materials to make banknotes used in Asia's most complex financial system.
Animal world
'Werewolf' rats specialize in eating poisonous scorpions and centipedes
The southern grasshopper rat is nicknamed
Animal world
Darwin's bark spider spins silk to 'build a bridge' 25m long
Thanks to its extremely unique silk-spinning mechanism and knowing how to take advantage of air currents, Darwin's bark spider can build a 25m long 'bridge' across the r…
Biology
A unique tree that looks like it was cast in bronze, typical of Tibet
This tree is grown as an ornamental plant in many parts of the world because of its striking copper-red bark, rare in woody plants.
Discover science
The secret of the type of Tibetan paper used to keep a thousand-year-old scriptures does not rot
Tibetan paper is fragrant and is made from a special type of thyme and the production technology reaches a meticulous artistic level. The thousand-year secret of rotting…
Discover science
The mystery behind the world's most dangerous object
A mass of about 3m ugly radioactive material with a wrinkled surface, like bark and glass, was formed during the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986 named 'death heart' - t…
Archeology
Discovered 8,000-year-old ancient gum
New Zealand anthropologists have uncovered evidence that ancient people used one type
Discover science
It can only be Japan: The train knows how to fake dogs and deer to prevent accidents
All trains in the world seem to care only about their sole duty to transport goods and passengers from point A to point B.
Discover science
Netherlands and investment from antimalarial drugs
Although it is possible to misunderstand the origin of malaria transmission, people have long understood that this is a very dangerous disease if it is not one of the wo…
Discover science
Things you may not know about cork nodes of wine bottles
The cork or li-e button (liège) is made from oak bark, which has so far proved to be the best protection of wine in the world.
Discover science
Chinese teachers make paper from pandas
Writing paper is retired by teachers made from panda, mulberry bark and vines of kiwi.
Discover science
Children understand dog mentality through barking dogs
Recent scientific research shows that children can understand the different barks of dogs whether they have ever been in contact with dogs before.
Oceanography
Talking meat eaters
Pihanha, the world's most aggressive, carnivorous fish, will be harsh when fighting for good food or preparing to fight and bite the enemy.