(PhysOrg.com) -- How can you tell the difference between random pictures and an ancient, symbol-based language? A new study has shown that concepts in entropy can be used to measure the degree of repetitiveness in Pictish ...
In honor of scientist and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the discovering team around Professor Sigurd Hofmann suggested the name "copernicium" with the element symbol "Cp" for the new element 112, discovered ...
General Physics
Jul 14, 2009
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany have just launched the Color Game, an app designed to provide a new way to study language evolution. The game asks players to communicate ...
Social Sciences
May 14, 2018
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Archaeology
Apr 23, 2009
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Symbolic execution is a powerful software-analysis tool that can be used to automatically locate and even repair programming bugs. Essentially, it traces out every path that a program's execution might take.
Computer Sciences
May 25, 2016
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study published in Animal Behavior shows that crows are capable of recognizing symbols designed to represent different quantities and is one of many different studies currently looking at the behavior ...
Activists nationwide have resumed demanding the removal of statues and symbols that are considered racially offensive—such as of slave owners, Confederate leaders and the Confederate flag.
Political science
Aug 17, 2020
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It is the most famous scientific equation in history, framed by Einstein more than a century ago. But what does e=mc² actually stand for? And how does it explain the relationship between energy, mass and ...
Other
Apr 22, 2009
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The snowy-feathered head and distinctive brown body of the bald eagle is a proud national symbol of the United States, adorning the country's currency and passports. The lion, known as "King of the Beasts," represents national ...
Ecology
May 24, 2017
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(Phys.org)—Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a new study from Rice University.
Other
Oct 11, 2012
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