Many of today's artificial intelligence systems loosely mimic the human brain. In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers suggest that another branch of biology—ecology—could ...
Ecology
Sep 11, 2023
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Daily weather patterns, brain activity on an EEG (electroencephalogram) and heartbeats on an EKG (electrocardiogram) each generate lines of complex data. To analyze this data, perhaps to predict a storm, seizure or heart ...
General Physics
Mar 20, 2018
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Last March, the U.S. Congress heard testimony about a scientific study in the journal Safety Science. A military analyst worried that the paper presented a model of how an attack on a small, unimportant part of the U.S. power ...
General Physics
Oct 12, 2010
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A newly discovered connection between control theory and network dynamical systems could help estimate the size of a network even when a small portion is accessible.
General Physics
Apr 22, 2020
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Human activities have already pushed the Earth system beyond three of the planet's biophysical thresholds, with consequences that are detrimental or even catastrophic for large parts of the world; six others may well be crossed ...
Environment
Sep 23, 2009
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One of the enduring mysteries of the human experience is how and why humans moved from hunting and gathering to farming.
Archaeology
Jul 21, 2015
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While it may be the era of supercomputers and "big data," without smart methods to mine all that data, it's only so much digital detritus. Now researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 6, 2018
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The design of efficient systems for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, driven by sunlight is among the most important challenges facing science today, underpinning the long term potential of hydrogen as a clean, sustainable ...
Other
Apr 6, 2009
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Want to build a really tough robot? Forget about Terminator. Instead, watch a tadpole turn into a frog.
Robotics
Jan 20, 2011
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How can predators coexist with their prey over long periods without the predators completely depleting the resource that keeps them alive? Experiments performed over a period of 10 years by researchers from McGill University ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 18, 2019
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