Tests showed horses that smelled body odour from people watching scary films startled more easily

Horses can smell fear, or at least whether you have scared yourself witless watching a horror movie, according to researchers who say the effect has consequences for riders, trainers and others who work with the animals.

In a series of tests, horses that smelled body odour from people watching scary films startled more easily, had higher heart rates and approached their handlers less often than when the odour came from people watching more joyful scenes.

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Pourquoi le fantôme du cadavre de cette étoile continue-t-il à toquer à la porte du vide spatial ? Mystère et boule de gomme pour les astrophysiciens.

Decoded genome of meat in pup’s stomach helps scientists build picture of what caused extinction of species

Researchers have shed light on the final centuries of the woolly rhinoceros after studying a hairy lump of meat from the stomach of an ancient wolf cub that became mummified in the Siberian permafrost.

The beautifully preserved remains of a two-month-old female wolf cub were discovered in 2011 near the village of Tumat in northeastern Siberia. The animal is thought to have died 14,400 years ago when a landslide collapsed its den, trapping the cub and others inside.

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Vous buvez de l'eau en bouteille ? Vous ne devriez pas. Une méta-analyse publiée dans le Journal of Hazardous Materials alerte les consommateurs : ceux buvant de l'eau en bouteille chaque jour ingèrent jusqu'à 90 000 microplastiques de plus par an que ceux qui boivent l'eau du robinet. Avec des conséquences potentiellement dramatiques pour la santé.

Sous couvert de rigueur scientifique, l'Agence américaine de protection de l'environnement (EPA) vient de modifier radicalement sa méthode d'évaluation de la pollution de l'air. Un calcul d'apothicaire qui risque bien de coûter très cher à la santé des citoyens américains.

Find marks first systematically identified burial site associated with plague burials in Europe, scientists say

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Scientists say the findings prove an ‘unmistakable trend’ for a hotter climate

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Participant’s Parkinson’s score dropped to value resembling that of healthy person, researchers say

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