Why share food with non-family members when there is no immediate gain? An international team of researchers conducted observations of natural food sharing behavior of the chimpanzees of the Tai …read more Source:: Science
Month: October 2018
Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio
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•By joining the Open Invention Network, Microsoft is offering its entire patent portfolio — with the legacy exception of its Windows and desktop application code — to all of the …read more Source:: Linux
Planned intermittent fasting may help reverse type 2 diabetes, suggest doctors
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•Planned intermittent fasting may help to reverse type 2 diabetes, suggest doctors after three patients in their care, who did this, were able to cut out the need for insulin …read more Source:: Science
The stuff that planets are made of
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•Researchers have analyzed the composition and structure of faraway exoplanets using statistical tools. Their analysis indicates whether a planet is earth-like, made up of pure rock or a water-world. The …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft smartens up the ML.Net machine learning API
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft has released the 0.6 version of its ML.Net machine learning framework, aimed at .Net developers. The update adds a new and more useful model-building API set, the …read more Source:: OpenSource
Oldest fossil of a flying squirrel sheds new light on its evolutionary tree
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•The oldest flying squirrel fossil ever found has unearthed new insight on the origin and evolution of these airborne animals. …read more Source:: Science
Time-traveling illusion tricks the brain
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•Researchers have developed two new illusions that reveal how the senses can influence each other — in particular, how sound can give rise to visual illusions. These illusions occur so …read more Source:: Science
Increase in plastics waste reaching remote South Atlantic islands
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•The amount of plastic washing up onto the shores of remote South Atlantic islands is 10 times greater than it was a decade ago, according to new research. Scientists investigating …read more Source:: Science
Nobel Prize in Economics 2018
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•The 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is being awarded to William D. Nordhaus “for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis” and Paul …read more Source:: Science
Mystery of Saturn’s moon Titan’s atmospheric haze
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•Experiments have helped scientists to zero in on a low-temperature chemical mechanism that may help to explain the complex molecular compounds that make up the nitrogen-rich haze layer surrounding Titan, …read more Source:: Science