More than 7,000 languages are spoken in the world. This linguistic diversity is passed on from one generation to the next, similarly to biological traits. But have language and genes evolved in parallel over the past few ...
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2022
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Despite wide variety amongst hunger-gatherer cultures, a new analysis finds that a "small world" network configuration is common to the social structures of all such groups. These network structures are constrained by the ...
Social Sciences
Mar 16, 2022
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Three months after the flight of the solar observatory Sunrise – carried aloft by a NASA scientific balloon in early June 2013—scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have presented ...
Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2013
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Humans can see an object—a chair, for example—and understand what they are seeing, even when something about it changes, such as its position. A computer, on the other hand, can't do that. It can learn to recognize a ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 23, 2013
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In the weeks after the Connecticut school shooting, as the nation puzzled over how it happened and what might prevent it from happening again, Kamal Sarabandi was listening to the news. Talk turned to giving teachers guns, ...
Engineering
Mar 26, 2013
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Detecting and stopping malicious attacks on computer networks is a central focus of computer security these days. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is asking for comments on two updated guides on malicious ...
Internet
Jul 26, 2012
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A group of US researchers has produced a robotic set of legs which they believe is the first to fully model walking in a biologically accurate manner.
Engineering
Jul 5, 2012
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Inexperienced mutual-fund managers and those working for funds with limited resources tend to invest too heavily in companies from their home states without the benefit of actual knowledge of the companies.
Economics & Business
Jun 19, 2012
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The browser wars are heating up again, but this time the fight is for dominance of the mobile Internet.
Software
May 27, 2012
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People who have already sifted through online information to make sense of a subject can help strangers facing similar tasks without ever directly communicating with them, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft ...
Other
May 7, 2012
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