How smart is the form of artificial intelligence known as deep learning computer networks, and how closely do these machines mimic the human brain? They have improved greatly in recent …read more Source:: Science
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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
‘Robust’ corals primed to resist coral bleaching
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•A world-first study reveals that ‘robust’ reef-building corals are the only known organisms in the animal kingdom to make one of the ‘essential’ amino acids, which may make them less …read more Source:: Science
Oracle’s Wookiee brings microservices to Scala developers
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•By Paul Krill In the Star Wars movies, pilot Han Solo explored the galaxy accompanied by a large, hairy creature known as a Wookiee. Scala developers can build microservices with a framework …read more Source:: OpenSource
150-million-year old, piranha-like specimen is earliest known flesh-eating fish
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•Researchers have described a remarkable new species of fish that lived in the sea about 150 million years ago in the time of the dinosaurs. The new species of bony …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers discover sonic boom from powerful unseen explosion
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•A team of astronomers has detected the sonic boom from an immensely powerful cosmic explosion, even though the explosion itself was totally unseen. The titanic eruption, known as a Gamma …read more Source:: Science
Did key building blocks for life come from deep space?
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•All living beings need cells and energy to replicate. Without these fundamental building blocks, living organisms could not exist. Little was known about a key element in the building blocks, …read more Source:: Science
Fat from 558 million years ago reveals earliest known animal
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•Scientists have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived on Earth 558 million years ago. …read more Source:: Science
Large wind and solar farms in the Sahara would increase heat, rain, vegetation
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•Wind and solar farms are known to have local effects on heat, humidity and other factors that may be beneficial — or detrimental — to the regions in which they …read more Source:: Science
Unraveling the nature of ‘whistlers’ from space in the lab
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•Scientists have presented research on a curious cosmic phenomenon known as ‘whistlers’ — very low frequency packets of radio waves that race along magnetic field lines. The study provides new …read more Source:: Science