Aesthetic attraction plays a big role in orangutans' mate choice, behavioral biologist and Ph.D. candidate Tom Roth has observed. But to discover just how big that role is, more research is needed into the emotions of the ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 12, 2024
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To be clear: The asteroid is not going to hit us.
Astronomy
Feb 15, 2023
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Television: It's not just for people anymore.
Veterinary medicine
Mar 24, 2022
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EPFL scientists have developed a method for boosting the sensitivity of rapid-detection tests like those used for the new coronavirus. The results of their feasibility study have just been published in Nano Letters.
Bio & Medicine
Feb 17, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made home offices, virtual meetings and remote learning the norm, and it is likely here to stay. But are people paying attention in online meetings? Are students paying attention in virtual classrooms? ...
Education
Jan 29, 2021
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Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that neural signatures in sleeping zebrafish are analogous to those of humans, suggesting that the brain activity evolved at least 450 million years ago, ...
Evolution
Jul 10, 2019
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Pedestrians often try to find their way about using their smartphones. The computer scientist Peter Kiefer and the geomatics expert Martin Raubal are at work together trying to make things easier for them. They work at the ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 23, 2016
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Reaching a clinic in time to receive an early diagnosis for cancer—when the disease is most treatable—is a global problem. And now a team of Chinese researchers proposes a global solution: have a user-friendly diagnostic ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 1, 2013
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A Soyuz capsule carrying an American, Russian and Italian successfully docked Wednesday with the International Space Station, where the new crew will spend six months conducting a variety of experiments.
Space Exploration
May 29, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A modified version of an eye test used to assess visual acuity in the military has been given to archerfish by scientists to help explain how these remarkable fish are able to accurately spit down tiny insects ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 21, 2013
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