Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack
The treatments were black-and-white painted stripes, black painted stripes, and no stripes (all-black body surface). Here we show that the numbers of biting flies on Japanese Blac…
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Cows painted like zebras attract fewer flies
A team of Japanese researchers recruited six cows and gave them each black-and-white stripes, black stripes and no stripes. They took photos of the cow's painted right side, count…
American, Japanese scientists win Nobel Prize for lithium-ion batteries
John Goodenough, a professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, was among three Nobel winners in chemistry. Illustration by Niklas Elmehed/Nobel MediaOct…
Man allegedly tracked down pop star using her own selfies and Google Street View
The 26-year-old was charged with assaulting a pop star he allegedly tracked down online using her selfies and Google Street View. TBSTokyo — Tokyo police have charged a 26-year…
Chemistry Nobel shared by 2 Americans and 1 Japanese researcher
Goran Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said the prize was about "a rechargeable world." Prize founder Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist who inve…
Hideo Kojima Talks About The Challenges He Experienced After Leaving Konami
Back in December 2015, Hideo Kojima announced that he was setting up his own studio, Kojima Productions. But it didn’t hurt that he was Hideo Kojima. Toward the end of a Famitsu interview, …
The Araki: High-end sushi restaurant loses all three of its Michelin stars
A high-end sushi restaurant in Mayfair has been stripped of all three of its Michelin stars. The eatery was awarded two Michelin stars in 2016 and earned its third start wo years later, bec…
Japanese Grand Prix: Super Typhoon Hagibis poses great risk to race weekend with 160mph winds forecast
F1 Belgian Grand Prix in pictures 1/48 Belgian Grand Prix Antoine Hubert's brother and mother are joined by the F1 paddock to remember the late F2 driver Reuters 2/48 Belgian Grand Prix A replic…
Scientists Painted Cows to Resemble Zebras and Prevent Biting Flies
The researchers painted a group of Japanese Black cows with white zebra stripes. In order to carry out their investigation, researchers painted six Japanese Black cows with Zebra-like black…
Logan Paul: Japan was my biggest fight
Logan Paul has described what happened in Japan back in 2017 as his "biggest fight". He faced a huge backlash over a video which showed the body of an apparent suicide victim. Ima…