An EPFL study shows that suburban commuters do not necessarily take environmental concerns into account when deciding whether to use their car. Many car commuters—especially those with hectic schedules—feel they have ...
Environment
Jul 6, 2021
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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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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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Symbols don't always have to be part of the equation to understand math, according to cognitive neuroscientist Elizabeth Brannon.
Plants & Animals
Apr 28, 2016
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One of the most important numbers in maths might today be named after the Greek letter π or "pi", but the convention of representing it this way actually doesn't come from Greece at all. It comes from the pen of an 18th ...
Mathematics
Mar 14, 2016
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New research published in the June 2014 issue of Language presents evidence that the methods employed by the authors of articles published in prestigious international science journals are not supported by a more rigorous ...
Social Sciences
Jun 2, 2014
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Archaeologists say they have discovered a new form of primitive writing in markings on stoneware excavated from a relic site in eastern China dating about 5,000 years back. The inscriptions are about 1,400 years older than ...
Archaeology
Jul 10, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Digging around historical Aboriginal sites in Newfoundland led a University of Alberta researcher to find clues potentially linking birds to the religious beliefs of a now-extinct First Nations group.
Archaeology
Apr 4, 2013
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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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(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 ...
