A Northwestern University astrophysicist has created the longest time-lapse video of an exoplanet to date.
Astronomy
Aug 10, 2023
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In a behavioral experiment, crows were able to learn to produce a set number of calls. This involves them planning in advance. From the sound of the first call in a numerical sequence, it is possible to predict how many calls ...
Plants & Animals
May 23, 2024
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264
Traditional mining has been subject to a negative stigma for some time. People, especially in developed countries, have a relatively negative view of this necessary economic activity. Primarily that is due to its environmental ...
Space Exploration
Dec 27, 2022
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41
When writing the abstracts for journal articles, most scientists receive similar advice: keep it short, dry, and simple. But a new analysis by University of Chicago researchers of over one million abstracts finds that many ...
Other
May 1, 2015
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177
When people think about artificial intelligence, or AI, they can be quick to jump to the all-too-common sci-fi depiction of a heartlessly rational computer willing to kill people to fulfill its programming.
Machine learning & AI
Mar 26, 2019
1
60
Games have been played for thousands of years in cultures across the world.
Archaeology
May 17, 2023
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4
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hotel guests come and go. But in the first decade of the 1900s, a pair of frequent Russian visitors to the Hotel Parisiana, near the Sorbonne on Paris' Left Bank, stood out vividly. The children of the hotel's ...
Mathematics
Dec 14, 2009
4
0
We humans tend to consider ourselves apart from other species. But we're not really so different. So what makes us unique? I'd say it's language, though not everyone would agree.
Other
Feb 27, 2013
1
0
When consumers talk to each other about products, they generally respond more favorably to abstract language than concrete descriptions, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Social Sciences
Jan 19, 2010
3
0
Becoming a fossil is the ultimate game of chance.
Archaeology
Feb 3, 2020
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