Creative Crafts and Art

23/01/2020

Thirst and Drinking Spark Widespread Activity in the Mouse Brain

Electrical recordings of approximately 24,000 individual neurons across 34 regions of the mouse brain reveal, in a study published in Science today (April 4), the cells that become activated during thirst, drinking, and satiety. The results show the widespread distribution of neuronal activity at di...

18/01/2020

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28/12/2019

Humane Society Successfully Campaigns to End Pesticide Test on Dogs

https://creativecraftsandart.com/humane-society-successfully-campaigns-to-end-pesticide-test-on-dogs/

On March 12, the Humane Society of the United States released a report based on an undercover investigation of a lab in Michigan contracted by Dow Agrosciences (now Corteva Agriscience) to conduct toxicity testing on dogs. Just days later, on March 18, Corteva announced it had ended a test of a fung...

28/12/2019

Microbes May Take Some of the Blame for the Reproducibility Crisis

https://creativecraftsandart.com/microbes-may-take-some-of-the-blame-for-the-reproducibility-crisis/

For the past several years, science has been plagued by what some consider a reproducibility crisis—the idea that many published studies don’t yield the same results when repeated by other scientists, or sometimes even by the same scientists. Surveys and studies have suggested myriad reasons suc...

28/12/2019

Thirst and Drinking Spark Widespread Activity in the Mouse Brain

https://creativecraftsandart.com/thirst-and-drinking-spark-widespread-activity-in-the-mouse-brain/

Electrical recordings of approximately 24,000 individual neurons across 34 regions of the mouse brain reveal, in a study published in Science today (April 4), the cells that become activated during thirst, drinking, and satiety. The results show the widespread distribution of neuronal activity at di...

28/12/2019

Pesticide Marketed as Safe for Bees Harms Them in Study

https://creativecraftsandart.com/pesticide-marketed-as-safe-for-bees-harms-them-in-study/

A pesticide used to control aphids and whiteflies called flupyradifurone, sold commercially as Sivanto, harms or even kills honey bees (Apis mellifera) when exposed to low doses in combination with a fungicide, according to the results of laboratory experiments published on April 10 in the Proceedin...

28/12/2019

Cats Perk Up at the Sound of Their Own Names

https://creativecraftsandart.com/cats-perk-up-at-the-sound-of-their-own-names/

Many regard felines as indifferent to their human companions, but cat owners may beg to differ—and now they research to back them up. A study published yesterday (April 4) in Scientific Reports suggests that domestic cats can distinguish the sounds of their names, even if they don’t come when ca...

28/12/2019

They're just so fluffy, you guys... so fluffy.