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Crows can use 'up to three tools'

(PhysOrg.com) -- New experiments by Oxford University scientists reveal that New Caledonian crows can spontaneously use up to three tools in the correct sequence to achieve a goal, something never before observed ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (32) | comments 23

Crows demonstrate their cleverness with tools (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- New Zealand scientists studying New Caledonian crows have found they can use three different tools in succession to gain a food treat. The crows are known to solve problems and fashion and ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Archaeologists shed new light on adaptability of modern humans’ ancestors

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Otago-led archaeological investigation of campsites up to 50,000 years old in a remote highland valley of Papua New Guinea is revealing how highly adaptable the humans at the ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

First-of-its-kind search engine will speed materials research

Researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) jointly launched today a groundbreaking new online tool called the ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Innovation, reinvented

A carmaker reports that design time on a new model dropped from six months to just one, thanks to new tools for innovation and collaboration developed by European researchers. The way companies get and develop good ideas ...

Technology / Software

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fluorescent proteins illuminating biomedical research

Remarkable new tools that spotlight individual cellular molecules are transforming biomedical research. Scientists at the Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have ...

Biology /

created Jan 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Precise molecular surgery in the plant genome

Crop plants have always been adapted to the needs of man by breeding for them to carry more fruit, survive droughts, or resist pests. Green biotechnology now adds new tools to the classical breeding methods ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

HealthMap surveillance efforts illustrate global epidemiology of H1N1 spread

As H1N1 began to emerge in April 2009, HealthMap - an automated online disease tracking and mapping tool created by researchers in the Informatics Program at Children's Hospital Boston - was already collecting information ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New software tools for railway signaling and energy distribution

New tools to improve the design of embedded software systems in automated railway signalling and smart energy distribution are being developed as part of a multi-million Euro project lead by researchers at the University ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Growing doubts over standard prostate cancer test

The most commonly used prostate cancer screening procedure, PSA, is at the center of a growing debate after its discoverer said it had become a "hugely expensive public health disaster."

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 13, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Boosting creativity with interactive technology

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg show that interactive technology generates new ways of seeing, showing and creating. The new technology boosts creativity.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 18

Researcher presents latest work on tracking ideas in social media

Indiana University's Filippo Menczer has shown how to "out" political astroturfers through his complex networks laboratory's study of information diffusion on Twitter. The research team went on to learn that while retweet ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0