Otters juggle stones when hungry, research shows
Hunger is likely to be the main driver of stone juggling in otters, new research has shown.
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2020
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News tagged with puzzle
Study reveals ancient jigsaw puzzle of past supercontinent
A new study published today in the journal Gondwana Research, has revealed the past position of the Australian, Antarctic and Indian tectonic plates, demonstrating how they formed the supercontinent Gondwana 165 million years ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 4, 2013
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Shredder Challenge solved
Almost 9,000 teams registered to participate in DARPA's Shredder Challenge. Thirty-three days after the challenge was announced, one small San Francisco-based team correctly reconstructed each of the five challenge documents ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 5, 2011
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Toy Robot to Solve Sudoku (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Swedish programmer, Hans Andersson, has used a Lego Mindstorms NXT kit to develop a robot to solve Sudoku puzzles.
What are the Chances? Probability Solves an Evolutionary Puzzle
The origin of species may be almost as random as a throw of the dice. Iosif Pinelis, a professor of mathematical sciences at Michigan Technological University, has worked out a mathematical solution to a biological puzzle: ...
Mathematics
Jan 30, 2009
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DARPA Shredder Challenge sizzling but no winner yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- With only days left until the December 4 Shredder Challenge deadline, DARPA is still asking the sharpest-minded computer scientists and simply the curious if anyone among them has the skills to reconstruct ...
Math puzzle goes viral
A University of Huddersfield lecturer has puzzled the world.
Mathematics
Apr 30, 2018
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Review: 'W.E.L.D.E.R.' leads parade of iPad gems
So you just got an iPad for Christmas. You already have all the essentials loaded - Facebook, Twitter, iBooks, whatever news app you prefer.
Software
Dec 29, 2011
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$50,000 to solve the most complicated puzzle ever attempted
(PhysOrg.com) -- Every few years the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) holds a public competition to stretch the outer limits of what technology can do. Two years ago they dispersed 10 large, ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 17, 2011
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Otters learn by copying each other
Otters can learn how to solve puzzles by watching and copying each other, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Aug 29, 2017
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