The Netherlands has entered into its strictest lockdown to date, with a new round of school and daycare closures. This will undoubtedly have an impact on parents around the country, who must once again juggle home schooling ...
Social Sciences
Dec 15, 2020
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By four months of age the cognitive performance of ravens in experimental tasks testing their understanding of the physical world and how they interact with other ravens may be similar to those of adult great apes, according ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 10, 2020
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Decades of technological change have polarized the earnings of the American workforce, helping highly educated white-collar workers thrive, while hollowing out the middle class. Yet present-day advances like robots and artificial ...
Economics & Business
Nov 17, 2020
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Zoologists at the University of Cologne studied the nervous systems of insects to investigate principles of biological brain computation and possible implications for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Specifically, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 5, 2020
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Despite extensive support for relationships between the gut microbiome and the brain (the "microbiota-gut-brain axis") in humans and rodents, little is known about these relationships in other animals, leaving questions about ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 4, 2020
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The chips of the future will include photonics and electronics; they will have bandwidth, speed and processing and computing abilities that are currently unthinkable; they will make it possible to integrate many other components, ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 19, 2020
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How do birds make decisions and which brain regions are particularly active when they solve tasks? Researchers from the Department of Biopsychology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) are investigating these questions. So far, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2020
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This week's announcement of mandatory disclosures of climate-related risks for companies and financial institutions is arguably the New Zealand government's most significant climate policy—even more so than the Zero Carbon ...
Environment
Sep 17, 2020
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The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) and the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) convened a panel of experts to update the 2013 AAFP Feline Vaccination Advisory Panel Report. The release of the ...
Veterinary medicine
Sep 1, 2020
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The Pentagon said Friday it was setting up a new task force under the US Navy to investigate UFO sightings.
Other
Aug 15, 2020
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