QUICK FACTS Name: Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) Where it lives: Steppes and high-elevation grasslands in Central Asia, particularly Mongolia and China What it eats: Small rodents, including gerbils, hamsters and pikas, small lizards and birds Pallas’s cat, also known as a manul, is a feline from Central Asia that yelps like a small dog and has such short legs that …
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Grins and banter: Trump gives warm welcome to Putin before Ukraine summit in Alaska | Donald Trump
Donald Trump has given the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, a warm welcome to US soil as they begin a critical summit on the war in Ukraine. Both leaders disembarked their planes at 11.08am local time at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, a cold war-era air force base on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The friendly, tactile body language that followed offered a …
Read More »Warm and cool temperatures travel on completely different paths to the brain
In a first, researchers have revealed the complete sensory pathway that enables the skin to communicate temperatures to the brain. It turns out that cool temperatures have an individual, dedicated pathway — suggesting the body has different circuits for deciphering warmth and coolness. This study, published July 28 in the journal Nature Communications, is the first to map out the …
Read More »This Wooden Sony Mirrorless Camera Model Gives The Cold, Black Camera A Warm, Personable Makeover
Although purely a model-making exercise from the annals of Ridhima Saini’s portfolio, this Sony Alpha 7R looks so gorgeous I wish it were real. Somewhere down the road, man ditched wooden ‘camera obscuras’ for metal and then molded plastic. In doing so, we lost the charm of hand-made cameras, their craftsmanship, and just the fact that each camera felt more …
Read More »‘Terrible fuel efficiency, no right-hand drive’: why trade deal won’t warm up Japan to American cars | Japan
Donald Trump has declared that Japan is opening up its domestic market to US cars as part of the bilateral trade deal announced this week. But American manufacturers will find it no easy task convincing Japanese drivers to choose what they see as oversized, unreliable gas-guzzlers. Announcing the agreement – which includes 15% tariffs on imports from Japan, including cars …
Read More »Scientists find Uranus is surprisingly warm, heating up the case for a new planetary mission
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. | Credit: NASA Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this discovery contradicts observations of the distant gas giant made by NASA’s …
Read More »Scientists find Uranus is surprisingly warm, heating up the case for a new planetary mission
Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this discovery contradicts observations of the distant gas giant made by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe nearly four decades ago. Scientists led by Xinyue Yang of the University of Houston analyzed decades of readings from spacecraft and computer models to …
Read More »Wealth funds warm to active management – and China – to weather volatility, report shows – Reuters
Wealth funds warm to active management – and China – to weather volatility, report shows ReutersView Full Coverage on Google News Source link
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