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- Killer whales learn to communicate like dolphins
- Acknowledging appearance reduces bias when beauties apply for masculine jobs, says study
- World's first child born after uterus transplantation
- Near-death experiences? Results of the world's largest medical study of the human mind and consciousness at time of death
- Printing in the hobby room: Paper-thin and touch-sensitive displays on various materials
| Killer whales learn to communicate like dolphins Posted: 07 Oct 2014 08:10 AM PDT The sounds that most animals use to communicate are innate, not learned. However, a few species, including humans, can imitate new sounds and use them in appropriate social contexts. This ability, known as vocal learning, is one of the underpinnings of language. Now, researchers have found that killer whales can engage in cross-species vocal learning: when socialized with bottlenose dolphins, they shifted the sounds they made to more closely match their social partners.  |
| Acknowledging appearance reduces bias when beauties apply for masculine jobs, says study Posted: 07 Oct 2014 07:33 AM PDT Past research shows physical beauty can be detrimental to women applying for masculine jobs. But belles can put the brakes on discrimination by acknowledging their looks during an interview, according to a new study.  |
| World's first child born after uterus transplantation Posted: 07 Oct 2014 06:21 AM PDT Seven Swedish women have had embryos reintroduced after receiving wombs from living donors. Now the first transplanted woman has delivered a baby – a healthy and normally developed boy.  |
| Posted: 07 Oct 2014 06:21 AM PDT The results of a four-year international study of 2060 cardiac arrest cases across 15 hospitals concludes the following. The themes relating to the experience of death appear far broader than what has been understood so far, or what has been described as so called near-death experiences. In some cases of cardiac arrest, memories of visual awareness compatible with so called out-of-body experiences may correspond with actual events. A higher proportion of people may have vivid death experiences, but do not recall them due to the effects of brain injury or sedative drugs on memory circuits. Widely used yet scientifically imprecise terms such as near-death and out-of-body experiences may not be sufficient to describe the actual experience of death. The recalled experience surrounding death merits a genuine investigation without prejudice.  |
| Printing in the hobby room: Paper-thin and touch-sensitive displays on various materials Posted: 07 Oct 2014 06:21 AM PDT Until now, if you want to print a greeting card for a loved one, you can use colorful graphics, fancy typefaces or special paper to enhance it. But what if you could integrate paper-thin displays into the cards, which could be printed at home and which would be able to depict self-created symbols or even react to touch? Those only some of the options computer scientists can now offer. They have just developed an approach that in the future will enable laypeople to print displays in any desired shape on various materials and therefore could change everyday life completely.  |
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