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Newly discovered stone tool-use behavior and accumulation sites in wild chimpanzees reminiscent to human cairns After discovering conspicuous piles of stones next to trees at four research sites in West Africa, the field teams placed camera traps next to them. … Continue reading →

Putting funny lines in his mouth doesn’t make you want to punch his smarmy face any less, but it does make looking at it for four minutes at least possible

On February 8, 2016, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured several images of blooming phytoplankton and swirling currents along the coast of California and western Mexico. The images were stitched together into a … Continue reading →

It turns out that the look of mutual recognition between human and dog reflects thousands of years of evolution, a bond programmed into our very body chemistry. Last spring a research team in Japan discovered that both species release a … Continue reading →

Sure, meteorologists want you to THINK they’re just common lenticular clouds. But any fan of George Pal’s epic War of the Worlds would recognize them instantly as the prescient HG Wells’ Martian invaders (who have developed some sort of cloaking … Continue reading →

A new study that examined the dietary habits of more than 18,300 U.S. adults found the majority of people who increased their consumption of plain water — tap water or from a cooler, drinking fountain or bottle — by 1 … Continue reading →

Of varying complexity, these 100s of cool Star Wars items would make a great theme for a kids party or just be a great way to use up your company’s toner when you’re bored at work.   Source: Search for “star … Continue reading →

Back in Aug. 2013, the New York State Attorney General’s office sued Donald Trump and Trump University, alleging that the for-profit investment school had tricked students out of $40 million by misleading them into thinking they were paying for a licensed … Continue reading →

Hallerberg and her colleagues built a “bag of calls” algorithm. The program listens to recordings of groups of animals, examining all the frequencies present in the signal. Rather than classify individual calls one by one, it calculated a coefficient to … Continue reading →