In the arms race between prey and predator, sophisticated counter strategies evolve, such as signals that reduce the risks to predator and prey by deterring activities before lethal action is necessary.
Plants & Animals
Nov 24, 2020
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Can information and communication technologies help maintain close ties in families who are scattered around the world as a result of (forced) migration? Vienna-based social anthropologist Monika Palmberger explores the role ...
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2020
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Wrinkle-faced bats not only have the most convoluted faces of any bat species, the males also have a flap of furry white skin they can pull over their lower faces, not unlike the face masks people wear. In a new report published ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 11, 2020
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A trio of researchers at the University of Minnesota has found that the character count per line of digital text on small display devices can have a negative impact on reading speed. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
The use of digital videos in learning processes is becoming increasingly widespread, particularly within the educational context created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a situation where moving education online is the only recourse, ...
Education
Nov 9, 2020
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A research team from Osaka University has developed an innovative new animal-borne data-collection system that, guided by artificial intelligence (AI), has led to the witnessing of previously unreported foraging behaviors ...
Ecology
Nov 2, 2020
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Video monitoring of the degree to which roads in the urban environment become waterlogged during periods of enduring, heavy rain, could be used as an early warning for imminent flooding, according to new research published ...
Environment
Oct 29, 2020
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It is estimated around half the world's students' schools remain shut down. All told, this has been a potentially damaging disruption to the education of a generation.
Education
Oct 26, 2020
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Trinidad and Tobago said Thursday that a damaged oil tanker off the island's coast was "stable" after opposition politicians in neighboring Venezuela warned of a potential "environmental catastrophe."
Environment
Oct 22, 2020
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Nokia says it has been tapped by NASA to build the first cellular communications network on the moon.
Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2020
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