Male Broad-tailed Hummingbirds perform dramatic aerial courtship dives to impress females. In a new study, scientists have shown that diving males closely time key events to produce a burst of …read more Source:: Science
Month: December 2018
Peering into Little Foot’s 3.67-million-year-old brain
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•MicroCT scans of the Australopithecus fossil known as Little Foot shows that the brain of this ancient human relative was small and shows features that are similar to our own …read more Source:: Science
New megalibrary approach proves useful for the rapid discovery of new materials
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•Identifying the best material for a given application — catalysts, light-harvesting structures, biodiagnostic labels, pharmaceuticals and electronic devices — is traditionally a slow and daunting task. Now, a new study …read more Source:: Science
New discovery pushes origin of feathers back by 70 million years
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•An international team of palaeontologists has discovered that the flying reptiles, pterosaurs, actually had four kinds of feathers, and these are shared with dinosaurs — pushing back the origin of …read more Source:: Science
Most-distant solar system object ever observed
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•A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our solar system. It is the first known solar system object that has been detected at a distance …read more Source:: Science
Saturn is losing its rings at ‘worst-case-scenario’ rate
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•New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 and 2 observations made decades ago. The rings are being pulled …read more Source:: Science
Satellite data exposes looting of archaeological sites
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•Globally archaeological heritage is under threat by looting. The destruction of archaeological sites obliterates the basis for our understanding of ancient cultures and we lose our shared human past. Research …read more Source:: Science
‘Treasure trove’ of dinosaur footprints found in southern England
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•More than 85 well-preserved dinosaur footprints — made by at least seven different species — have been uncovered in East Sussex, representing the most diverse and detailed collection of these …read more Source:: Science
PyText builds on PyTorch for language recognition
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Facebook has open-sourced its PyText project, a machine learning library for natural language processing (NLP) intended to make it easier to put together both experimental projects and production systems. PyText, built …read more Source:: OpenSource
HIV vaccine protects non-human primates from infection
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•New research shows that an experimental HIV vaccine strategy works in non-human primates. In the study, rhesus macaque monkeys produced neutralizing antibodies against one strain of HIV that resembles the …read more Source:: Science