heat stress and exhaustion is one of the top causes of chicken death. for those new to backyard chicken farming, it is important you learn to recognize the signs of this serious condition and how to keep your chickens cool and hydrated. chicks, especially, need extra attention to help them remain healthy. for a flock of laying hens, knowing how to prevent heat exhaustion and treat a chicken suf...

Since the early 60s, in our lab we sought useful correlations of seminal traits and fertility in order to ultimately predict the reproductive outcome of bovine semen used in artificial breeding or the fertility of a specific male under natural service. Despite these efforts, to this day we can only account for approximately 50-60% of the variation in fertility among males by measuring seminal t...

Most cosmologists now believe that we live in an evolving universe that has been expanding and cooling since its origin about 15 billion years ago. Strong evidence for this standard cosmological model comes from studies of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR), the remnant heat from the initial fireball. The CMBR spectrum is blackbody, as predicted from the hot Big Bang model before ...

To determine background radiation levels that might influence experiments, we measured in situ gamma-ray emissions at ten locations in the Boulby Underground Laboratory. For gamma radiation in the energy range of 7-2,734 keV, the counts varied from 6.5 to 28 γ s-1. For measurements inside the Lab, the arithmetic mean was 24 γ s-1. The sedimentary rocks that surrounded the Lab, halite and mudsto...