A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) of the bony head-crests of male gorillas could provide some of the first clues about the social structures of our extinct human relatives, including how they chose ...
Evolution
May 3, 2017
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Promiscuity mixes up the gene pool and dilutes genetic differences between populations, slowing down the evolution of new species, says new research by an international team led by the University of Bath's Milner Centre for ...
Evolution
Apr 10, 2017
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Normally, bare metal sliding against bare metal is not a good thing. Friction will destroy pistons in an engine, for example, without lubrication.
Materials Science
Apr 5, 2017
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Democrats and Republicans in recent years haven't seemed able to agree on the time of day, but there is one assertion on which they've found common ground: Polling and data analytics took a spectacular face-plant in the 2016 ...
Mathematics
Mar 31, 2017
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Normally, bare metal sliding against bare metal is not a good thing. Friction will destroy pistons in an engine, for example, without lubrication.
Materials Science
Mar 23, 2017
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Crowd wisdom such as what might arise from online voting is popularly assumed to provide better answers than any one person by aggregating multiple perspectives. Democratic methods, however, tend to favor the most popular ...
Social Sciences
Feb 6, 2017
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The wisdom of crowds is not always perfect. But two scholars at MIT's Sloan Neuroeconomics Lab, along with a colleague at Princeton University, have found a way to make it better.
Social Sciences
Jan 25, 2017
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The taste of wine arises from a symphony of compounds that are assembled as yeast ferment the must from grapes. But much of what happens in this process remains obscure. Now a team of researchers from France, a country that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 23, 2017
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When anthropologists of the future find our fossilized teeth, what will they be able to conclude about our lives?
Evolution
Jan 9, 2017
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The world's oldest known seabird is expecting—again.
Ecology
Dec 9, 2016
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