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Some characteristics of temperature regulation in the unanesthetized dog.
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development, Life Sciences
This article reports the results of measurements of hypothalamic temperature and regulatory responses in the normal dog in hot, ...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Are Chicken Embryos Endotherms or Ectotherms? A Laboratory Exercise Integrating Concepts in Thermoregulation and Metabolism
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Structure and Function in Living Things, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences, Education, Child Development & Family Services
This investigative laboratory exercise uses the different relations between ambient temperature and metabolic rate in endotherms...
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Help Santa Stand Up to the Heat: Physiologists Offer Santa Some Tips for a Cool Ride
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Science, Professional Development, Health Science & Medical Technology, Human Anatomy & Physiology and 2 additional..
This press release from the American Physiological Society describes how Santa adjusts to differing climates as he travels the g...
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Elderly's Ability to Manage the Cold May Be Due In Part to Some Aging Processes of the Body
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Health Science & Medical Technology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences
Younger adults are less susceptible to hypothermia than the elderly, whose impaired ability to maintain core temperature during ...
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Physiology of the Season: Santa and Rudolph Adapt to the Weather
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Science, Professional Development, Health Science & Medical Technology, Human Anatomy & Physiology and 2 additional..
In a special holiday podcast from the American Physiological Society, Perry Barboza, Institute of Arctic Biology at the Universi...
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Hypothalamic control of body temperature: insights from the past
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences
This essay looks at the historical significance of three APS classic papers dealing with temperature regulation and hypothalamic...
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Mammalian Hibernation: Cellular and Molecular Responses to Depressed Metabolism and Low Temperature
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Structure and Function in Living Things, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences
Review of research using new tools of molecular and cellular biology that is beginning to reveal how hibernators survive repeate...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Daniel Fahrenheit, Anders Celsius Left Their Marks
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Nature & Method of Science, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Mathematics, Professional Development
This interesting historic profile of Daniel Fahrenheit and Anders Celsius describes the processes these scientists used in descr...
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Ripples on Icicles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Engineering & Design, Earth's Resources, Properties of Matter and 2 additional..
This website, from the University of Toronto, provides a discussion of the instability that gives rise to ripples on the surface...
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Use of Orthoplast® for Winter Sports
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Engineering & Design, Technology, Professional Development, Health Science & Medical Technology and 3 additional..
Article from the Journal of Athletic Training discusses use of the Orthoplast to protect athletes participating in winter sport:...
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The high-tech race for Olympic gold: Speed suits reveal cutting-edge technology in quest for victory
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Engineering & Design, Technology, Professional Development, Physics, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis
This MSNBC article from 2002 describes the state-of-the-science technology, research, and development behind body suits in prepa...
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Figure Skating Dynamics of Leaps and Throws
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Physics, Force & Motion
This resource from the World of Sports Science explains the forces at work in leaps and throws in figure skating.
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New Olympic Clocks Go for the Gold
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Technology, Professional Development, Physics, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis and 2 additional..
In the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, German racer Georg Hackl took the gold in the men's luge by just 13 milliseconds, or thousandt...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Snow, Sleet, and Freezing Rain
Grades: 6 to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Science, Earth's Resources, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere
This animation illustrates the conditions responsible for snow, sleet, rain, and freezing rain based on vertical temperature gra...
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Liquid nitrogen is very, very cold! (liquid nitrogen demonstration)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Professional Development, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases)
In this YouTube video, chemistry teacher Aaron Keller demonstrates the amazing properties of liquid nitrogen. He explains each d...
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Why does salt melt ice?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Science, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Chemistry and 5 additional..
This tutorial on the chemical interaction between salt and ice explains how molecules on the surface of the ice escape into the ...
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Why is it so hard to start a car in the winter?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Energy & Work, Our Solar System, Earth's Resources, Chemistry, Professional Development
This article describes the physical reasons why automobile engines have more difficulty starting in cold conditions than in warm...
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