We may remember 2018 as the year when technology's dystopian potential became clear, from Facebook's role enabling the harvesting of our personal data for election interference to a seemingly unending series of revelations ...
Business
Dec 25, 2018
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To better understand how animals like spiders communicate with pattern and color, a University of Cincinnati biology student is turning to ancient dramatic art.
Other
Jan 25, 2020
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Is honesty really the best policy? Isn't it more beneficial to cheat, if you can get away with it?
Plants & Animals
Jul 4, 2016
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The National Center for Educational Statistics reported that only 73% of high school freshmen graduate within four years. For those students who continue their education at the collegiate level, slightly more than half (57%) ...
Social Sciences
Oct 9, 2012
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New research has shown that feral, untrained pigeons can recognise individual people and are not fooled by a change of clothes.
Plants & Animals
Jul 3, 2011
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Why are the faces of primates so dramatically different from one another?
Evolution
Jan 11, 2012
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What contributed to the evolution of faces in the ape-like ancestors of humans? The prehistoric version of a bar fight —over women, resources and other slug-worthy disagreements, new research from the University of Utah ...
Archaeology
Jun 9, 2014
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Divide, subtract, add, multiply: whatever way you cut it, Australia is heading in one direction when it comes to global math rankings—downwards.
Mathematics
May 18, 2022
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Everybody loves bees, but their cousins the wasps often provoke a far less friendly reaction. The much-maligned insects often inspire fear, disgust or even the "kill it with fire" response.
Plants & Animals
Sep 9, 2023
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It speaks two languages, gives math lessons, tells jokes and interacts with children through the tablet screen in its chest—China's latest robot is the babysitter every parent needs.
Robotics
Jun 14, 2018
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