A new computer system predicts the products of chemical reactions. Credit: MIT News When organic chemists identify a useful chemical compound—a new drug, for instance—it’s up to che...
Steve Chien and Kiri Wagstaff suggest that future space probes will be given enough intelligence to carry out much of their mission without prompts from people back on Earth. Doing s...
Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Copenhagen today announced a research collaboration with a company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) to develop solutions for...
The number of collisions recorded by ATLAS and CMS during the proton run from April to the end of October was 60% higher than anticipated. The performance is even more remarkable con...
When I was younger, I was totally interested in computer science and artificial intelligence but I also found human languages fascinating with their grammatical structures and comple...
Current methods for synthesizing genes make extensive use of enzymes (naturally occurring biological catalysts) to connect short strands of DNA to form the larger strands that make u...
A Burmese python superimposed on an analysis of gene expression that uncovers how the species changes in its organs upon feeding. To uncover new insights that link variation in DNA w...
To test for repeatability of colouration estimates (representativeness of dorsal colour), a total of 40 samples were randomly selected with “Sampling Design Tool” (in ArcGIS 10.166) ...
Analysis of these genomes revealed that spiders and scorpions evolved from a shared ancestor more than 400 million years ago, which made new copies of all of the genes in its genome,...
We had the DNA of the bacteria sequenced on campus, and we discovered they had mutated and were using the new compound to take iron in to grow, he said. So how big is the discovery o...
Dynamic friction evolves throughout an earthquake, affecting how much and how fast the ground will shake and thus, most importantly, the destructiveness of the earthquake. Yet the pr...
Variation in vomeronasal-lingual morphology Squamates use their vomeronasal-lingual system to sample chemicals from the surroundings47,48. Since bifid tongues may enhance tropotacti...
Kocher and her colleagues imaged the antennae of adult females from 36 species that Kocher netted in the wild, mostly in France, or secured from specimens from the Museum of Comparat...
In this case, if the spaces between the whale’s teeth were too large, prey could have escaped. The large teeth (in Corondon) also blocked parts of the sides of the mouth, so they ini...
Our global panel of populations revealed marked differences in inferred N e between food producers and hunter-gatherers: as expected, the latter show larger effective population size...
But why do people and animals naturally favor one side over the other, and what does it teach us about the brain’s inner workings? The first of those is perceptual specialization: th...
All over the globe, the urbanization of landscapes is increasing. The researchers drew on lists of species published by botanists since the 17th century as well as data from herbaria...
In a landmark moment for energy usage, the UK has generated a day’s worth of electricity without using coal For the first time in over 130 years, the UK has gone a full day without ...
However, in a study published April 25 in Cell Reports, researchers have used gene sequences from 161 modern breeds to assemble an evolutionary tree of dogs. The map of dog breeds, w...
The dawn of the Animal Kingdom began with a collagen scaffold that enabled the organization of cells into tissues. The fundamental principles of tissue development are present in anc...
Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins Peter S. Ungar Princeton University Press: 2017. Thus, the teeth of our hominin predecessors in the archaeological and fos...
Alex DeCasien and her colleagues at New York University compiled existing data on primate brain and body size, and sorted the species into four dietary categories: omnivores, leaf-ea...
Under these conditions, we don’t typically expect to find such a difference in traits between surface and cave populations. In their model, the selection for blindness would need to ...
Ecologists who study flowering plants have long believed that flowers evolved with particular sets of characteristics–unique combinations of colors, shapes, and orientations, for ...
Common machine learning programs, when trained with ordinary human language available online, can acquire cultural biases embedded in the patterns of wording, the researchers found. ...