One big challenge in life is dividing things fairly. From sharing a tasty snack to allocating resources between nations, having a strategy to divvy things up equitably will make everyone a little happier. But it gets complicated when the thing...
Nest: still abandoned Brace yourselves. That abandoned bird’s nest is still seated in the mouth of the large, ancient, carved stone human face hanging high on a wall in the northernmost corner of the outdoor garden known as “Michelangelo’s Cloister”...
Top row: original images. Second row: images reconstructed by AI based on brain recordings from a macaque. Bottom row: images reconstructed by the AI system without an attention mechanismThirza Dado et al. Artificial intelligence systems can now create remarkably accurate...
Trimeresurus cyanolabris is new to scienceNick Poyarkov A multicoloured venomous snake found in dry tropical forests in central Vietnam has been recognised as a new species. Trimeresurus cyanolabris has a bright grass-green body, yellow eyes, a brick-red tail and blue...
A quantum phenomenon that muddles the rules of cause and effect could make quantum computers better at performing certain operations Source link...
Scientists have optimised pistachio storageMilovan Radmanovac/Alamy Shelling your favourite snack nuts just got a lot easier: physicists have worked out the exact size of bowl to best fit discarded pistachio shells. Ruben Zakine and Michael Benzaquen at École Polytechnique in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kejkYQ-SXgY The first-ever footage of a blue whale calf suckling, filmed by a snorkeller in East Timor in South-East Asia, has been released. “It is certainly not a newborn calf,” says Karen Edyvane at the Australian National University in Darwin, “but...
If London’s roofs were white, it would help keep the city cool in a heatwaveNagyxMe/Imago/Alamy Painting rooftops white or covering them with a reflective coating is the best way to reduce air temperature in a city like London during a...
The start-up Metalplant harvests nickel-accumulating flowersCourtesy of MetalPlant On a recent afternoon in northern Albania, workers gathered armfuls of freshly cut shrubs covered in yellow flowers, leaving them to dry in the sun like hay. But this was no ordinary...
Crushed chicken egg shells have been turned into a structure that supports bone growth in the laboratory Source link...
