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- Computer as smart as a 4-year-old? Researchers IQ test new artificial intelligence system
- Lunar cycle affects cardiac patients undergoing acute aortic dissection: Waning and full moon cycles impact length of stay, mortality
- Distorted GPS signals reveal hurricane wind speeds
- Share robotic frogs help turn a boring mating call into a serenade
- Attractive and successful: In bonobos, attractive females are more likely to win conflicts against males
- Phytoplankton social mixers: Tiny ocean plants use turbulence for travel to social gatherings
- Smallest puzzle in the world
- The universe or the brain: Where does math originate?
| Computer as smart as a 4-year-old? Researchers IQ test new artificial intelligence system Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:10 PM PDT Artificial and natural knowledge researchers IQ-tested one of the best available artificial intelligence systems and learned that it's about as smart as the average 4-year-old.  |
| Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:18 AM PDT If you need cardiac surgery in the future, aortic dissection in particular, reach for the moon. Or at least try to schedule your surgery around its cycle. A new study found that acute aortic dissection repair performed in the waning full moon appears to reduce the odds of death, and a full moon was associated with shorter length of stay.  |
| Distorted GPS signals reveal hurricane wind speeds Posted: 15 Jul 2013 10:56 AM PDT Researchers have found a way to do something completely different with GPS: Measure and map the wind speeds of hurricanes. The new technique could help meteorologists better predict storm severity, how storms form, and where they might be headed.  |
| Share robotic frogs help turn a boring mating call into a serenade Posted: 15 Jul 2013 08:48 AM PDT With the help of a robotic frog, biologists have discovered that two wrong mating calls can make a right for female túngara frogs. The "rather bizarre" result may provide insight into how complex traits evolve by hooking together much simpler traits.  |
| Posted: 15 Jul 2013 07:52 AM PDT While intersexual dominance relations in bonobos never have been thoroughly studied in the wild, several ideas exist of how females attain their dominance status. Some researchers suggest that bonobo female dominance is facilitated by females forming coalitions which suppress male aggression. Others think of an evolutionary scenario in which females prefer non-aggressive males which renders male aggressiveness to a non-adaptive trait.  |
| Phytoplankton social mixers: Tiny ocean plants use turbulence for travel to social gatherings Posted: 15 Jul 2013 04:03 AM PDT Scientists have shown that the motility of phytoplankton also helps them determine their fate in ocean turbulence.  |
| Posted: 15 Jul 2013 04:03 AM PDT Researchers have created three puzzle pieces of less than 1 mm in size each that may be put together to make what is likely the smallest puzzle in the world. For production, researchers used a new process to manufacture microstructured casting molds. Inexpensive series production is combined with highest precision on the microscale to produce such things as components for watches, engines, or medical products. Now, large series of smallest parts can be injection-molded with the highest accuracy.  |
| The universe or the brain: Where does math originate? Posted: 15 Jul 2013 04:01 AM PDT Four scientists debate whether math is an inherent part of the universe, or merely how our brains cope with - and explain - our environment.  |
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