Neuroscientists have investigated which brain area is responsible for storing odors as long-term memories. Some odors can trigger memories of experiences from years back. A new study shows that the …read more Source:: Science
Month: December 2017
A 508-million-year-old sea predator with a ‘jackknife’ head
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•Paleontologists have revisited a tiny yet fierce ancient sea creature called Habelia optata that has confounded scientists since it was discovered more than a century ago. Analysis of new fossil …read more Source:: Science
West African dolphin now listed as one of Africa’s rarest mammals
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•A group of scientists now considers a little-known dolphin that only lives along the Atlantic coasts of Western Africa to be among the continent’s most endangered mammals, a list that …read more Source:: Science
Memristors power quick-learning neural network
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•A new type of neural network made with memristors can dramatically improve the efficiency of teaching machines to think like humans. The network, called a reservoir computing system, could predict …read more Source:: Science
Star in the constellation Pisces is ‘eating’ planets
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•Astronomers have discovered that a distant star called RZ Picseum in the constellation Pisces is crushing one or more planets into its orbit into a vast cloud of gas and …read more Source:: Science
An integrated assessment of vascular plants species of the Americas
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•Botanists have compiled a comprehensive, searchable checklist of 124,993 species, 6,227 genera and 355 families of vascular plants of the Americas. This represents one third of all known vascular plants …read more Source:: Science
The origin of water’s unusual properties found
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•Using x-ray lasers, researchers have been able to map out how water fluctuates between two different states when it is cooled. At -44°C these fluctuations reach a maximum pointing to …read more Source:: Science
Discovery of a 4,000-year-old military network in northern Syria
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•The discovery of more than a thousand sites in Syria has revised our understanding of the settlement of the steppes during all periods in the history of the Near East. …read more Source:: Science
A particle like slow light
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•Weyl particles are not particles which can move on their own (like electrons or protons), they only exist as ‘quasiparticles’ within a solid material. Now, for the first time, such …read more Source:: Science
Political instability and weak governance lead to loss of species, study finds
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•Big data study of global biodiversity shows ineffective national governance is a better indicator of species decline than any other measure of ‘anthropogenic impact.’ Even protected conservation areas make little …read more Source:: Science