Step-Counters for Cows? Yep, It’s a Thing.
We've become obsessed with getting our 10,000 steps a day.Sales of wearable step-trackers made by Fitbit, Garmin, and Apple are estimated to generate $97.5 billion in revenues in…
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Another California exodus: Dairy cows leave for greener pastures in Texas, Arizona as…
Michael Oosten’s grandparents were dairy farmers in the Netherlands and immigrated to California in the 1920s, starting their own dairy farm in Paramount in 1945 before relocating to bigger…
Feeding cows a few ounces of seaweed daily could sharply reduce their contribution to…
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) Methane is a short-lived but powerful…
New research tracks the history of manatees across Earth’s oceans: Sea cows…
Zoologists refer to manatees and dugongs as "sea cows" but a simple internet search might return the more playful moniker "floaty potatoes."
Now, imagine a 24,000-pound version, twice the…
Wildfire Smoke Is Terrible for You. But What Does It Do to Cows?
Other animals on the farm, too, may be vulnerable to wildfire smoke. Horses have massive lungs—the animals are born to run and suck in loads of air in the process. “We don’t know for sure,…
IIM Ahmedabad Paper Proposes New Facial Recognition Tool for Stray Cows
Cows are considered the backbone of rural economy, but face neglect on becoming unproductive, and now a top business school has proposed a facial recognition technology-based development…
Age didn’t stop him from quitting his job to raise cows. Now, he’s the…
Farm Fresh is my go-to milk brand because of its comparatively affordable price, and convenience stores such as 7-Eleven always seem to have it stocked up whenever I’m in a pinch for some…
Milk may exacerbate MS symptoms: Cow’s milk protein triggers autoimmune…
The prompt for the study came from MS patients: "We hear again and again from sufferers that they feel worse when they consume milk, cottage cheese or yogurt," explains Stefanie Kürten from…
Gene regulation in mammals offers clues connecting pregnancy and cancer metastasis:…
Researchers from UConn Heath and Yale University have made new advances connecting the evolution of pregnancy and cancer metastasis.
Publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
An X-ray glow suggests black holes or neutron stars fuel weird cosmic ‘cows’
A brilliant blast from a galaxy 2 billion light-years away is the brightest cosmic “Cow” found yet. It’s the fifth known object in this new class of exploding stars and their…