Month: March 2017
Twitter Adds Heft to Anti-Harassment Toolbox
Twitter on Wednesday announced that over the next few months it will roll out changes…
100,000-year-old human skulls from east Asia reveal complex mix of trends in time, space
Two partial archaic human skulls, from the Lingjing site, Xuchang, central China, provide a new…
Poker-playing AI program first to beat pros at no-limit Texas hold ’em
A team of computing scientists is once again capturing the world’s collective fascination with artificial…
Research team discovers many new twists in protein folding
Biophysicists have measured protein folding in more detail than ever before, revealing behavior that is…
Computer operating system and short movie stored on DNA
An algorithm designed for streaming video on a cellphone can unlock DNA’s nearly full storage…
Ancient peoples shaped the Amazon rainforest
We often think of the Amazon rainforest as a vast expanse of nature untouched by…
Woolly mammoths experienced a genomic meltdown just before extinction
Dwindling populations created a ‘mutational meltdown’ in the genomes of the last woolly mammoths, which…
Scientists create artificial mouse ’embryo’ from stem cells for first time
Scientists have managed to create a structure resembling a mouse embryo in culture, using two…
Study finds new mechanism to control information flow in the brain
A team of neuroscientists has found that specialized nerve cells, known as somatostatin-expressing (Sst) interneurons,…