Animal physiology

Scientists identified a set of neurons in the hypothalamus that allows mice to enter torpor & found that they could induce hibernation on demand

What happens to the body when a human gets heatstroke? How can we protect ourselves in a warming planet? To answer these burning questions, Arizona researchers have deployed a robot that can breathe, shiver and sweat.

Within the scope of a school project, a group of high school students in the northwestern province of Bursa has succeeded in producing paper from manure made out of cow dung, bagging an award in a national competition.

It took six years after the harsh winter that had enveloped the summer-style tents with snow in the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesvos for compensation to be awarded to the relatives of a Syrian and an Egyptian man who died from carbon monoxide inhalation as they tried to keep warm with makeshift stoves. 

Encouraging results have emerged from the multi-year research of a team of scientists at the Demokritos National Center of Scientific Research giving hope of future tools for the better treatment of conditions that affect the central nervous system, such as Alzheimer's disease and malignant brain tumors.

"Boji," Istanbul's beloved stray dog who has captured hearts after being spotted by the city's locals for regularly using public transport, has been framed and accused of pooping on a train.

Footage from a surveillance camera showed a man leaving the poop on the seat of a train, attempting to frame Boji and accuse him of leaving the feces on public transport.

Sweating, or so the theory goes, is good for the skin, supposedly unclogging the pores, as well as revitalizing the circulatory system.

When sweating meets … social media, however, in the form of shapely young women posting photographs of their workouts, of even… post-workout images, well, then we have a “viral phenomenon”.