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| Why Is This Ostrich Wearing an Extra Set of Wings? A young ostrich sprints down a path at a Chinese farm. His neck bobs, his legs pump — and the artificial wings attached to his back flap up and down. Alas, this ostrich will not fly. He's filling in for another earthbound creature, a dinosaur called Caudipteryx. | |
| What makes a planet habitable Which of Earth's features were essential for the origin and sustenance of life? And how do scientists identify those features on other worlds? A team of investigators with array of expertise ranging from geochemistry to planetary science to astronomy published ... | |
| Ancient jaw gives elusive Denisovans a face Thirty-nine years ago, a Buddhist monk meditating in a cave on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau found something strange: a human jawbone with giant molars. The fossil eventually found its way to scientists. Now, almost 4 decades later, a groundbreaking ... | |
| Exploding electrical wires underwater to understand shock waves If you're not a plasma physicist, exploding electrical wires underwater may sound like a bad idea. But it's actually a way to study shock waves, the propagating disturbances that move faster than the speed of sound. Shock wave studies allow researchers to ... | |
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| AI Evolved These Creepy Images to Please a Monkey's Brain In April 2018, a monkey named Ringo sat in a Harvard lab, sipping juice, while strange images flickered in front of his eyes. The pictures were created by an artificial-intelligence algorithm called XDREAM, which gradually tweaked them to stimulate one ... | |
| Neural population control via deep image synthesis To what extent are predictive deep learning models of neural responses useful for generating experimental hypotheses? Bashivan et al. took an artificial neural network built to model the behavior of the target visual system and used it to construct images ... | |
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| Space station finds a calling The International Space Station (ISS) has never been known as a hotbed of science, even though the United States and partner nations spent more than $100 billion to build it. Inside its cramped bays, astronauts study the biological effects of microgravity, and ... | |
| What Finding Water on an Ancient Asteroid Means for Life on Earth Using objects from space to study Earth's early history, two scientists have taken the first-ever measurements of water contained in samples from the surface of an asteroid. The cosmochemists at Arizona State University believe their findings suggest that ... | |
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| Defenders of CO2 expand presence in Congress A group funded by conservative foundations to promote doubt about the effects of climate change has quietly expanded its outreach in Congress over the last few months. Yesterday, the CO2 Coalition held a briefing for congressional aides to claim that rising ... | |
| Discover Your Dog's Canine Heritage With This DNA Kit From Popular Mechanics. Dogs know more about their owners more than they let on. They can tell whether you're happy or sad, know when you're leaving, coming home, and where you've been, and they have their own spidey senses that help them ... | |
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