Like most mammals, pigs vocally express a lot of emotions such as joy, fear, frustration. To do this, they emit a whole battery of more or less high-pitched and more or less long vocalizations: barking, squeaking, screaming ...
Plants & Animals
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Listeners can extract a lot of information about a person from their acoustic speech signal. When researchers previously put this to the test, listeners were able to identify both race and regional dialects within the U.S. ...
Social Sciences
Dec 10, 2020
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A newly launched European-U.S. satellite designed to continue a decades-long record of tracking global sea levels has sent back its first measurements, NASA said Thursday.
Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2020
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Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are both examples of amyloid diseases, where malfunctioning proteins accumulate to form fibrils and larger aggregates called amyloid plaques. In the journal Biophysical Chemistry ...
Biochemistry
Dec 10, 2020
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I traveled to a marine research station on a picturesque Swedish fjord many times over the four years I worked on my Ph.D. What brought me back again and again? Buried in the mud off the west coast of Sweden lives a small ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 10, 2020
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Nature struck relentlessly in 2020 with record-breaking and deadly weather- and climate-related disasters.
Environment
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On a beach in North Carolina, researchers have been poking and prodding the sand to study how moisture levels affect sounds as they move across the environment.
Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2020
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Congress may be close to a deal on another coronavirus bailout, but Senate Republican demands for liability protections for businesses remain a major obstacle.
Economics & Business
Dec 10, 2020
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In the production of integrated circuits (computer chips), continuous innovation is essential to remain competitive. A major goal is to increase the productivity of photolithography machines, which is partly determined by ...
General Physics
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A prediction model that considers multiple landslides over time in a given region may improve the accuracy of early warning systems.
Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2020
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