The incident happened around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, UIUC school officials said. A cow that was being loaded onto a trailer at the College of Veterinary Medicine's Large Animal Clinic was able to get ...

During the scouting combine, quarterback Garrett Nussmeier noted that during the 2025 season, he was dealing with a rare injury that caused him to feel a “stabbing pain” in his abdomen while throwing.

Halter, a New Zealand-based startup selling artificial intelligence-powered collars for cows, has raised $220 million from investors to expand the reach of its technology to more ranchers around the ...

A sudden, mysterious burst of bright light in the sky could be from a black hole devouring a vast, unusually bare star. In 2018, astronomers spotted a new kind of cosmic explosion that became brighter ...

I tossed and turned in discomfort, while trying to fall asleep after intimacy. A sharp pain swirled around my lower belly, but I thought it was only gas from the beans and a beer I had for dinner that ...

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A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...

Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss ...

Veronika, a cow living in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself with sticks, rakes, and deck brushes. Now that scientists ...

How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view livestock. For the past decade, Veronika has been observed by her owner ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...