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In the cutthroat Hollywood film industry, is it possible to know if an actor’s career is about to boom or bust? In many cases, yes.
Researchers from Queen Mary University in London created an algorithm that can predict with 85 percent accuracy whether a star’s golden years have passed or are still yet to come. In a study published June 4 in the open-access journal Nature Communications, scientists analyzed the profil ...read more
Successive waves of migration from Siberia created the Inuit populations in North America today. (Credit: Illustration by Kerttu Majander, Design by Michelle O'Reilly)
Who
were the First Americans? It's a question that for decades has divided researchers,
who have proposed competing theories as to how humans moved from Eurasia into
North America.
The
question is far from settled, though it is clear that by about 14,500 years ago
(and perhaps as far back as 30,000 years ago) humans had mov ...read more
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope studied a double asteroid, shown here in an artist's illustration, during an Earth flyby in May. (Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser)
A binary asteroid named 1999 KW4 passed some 32 million miles (5.2
million km) from Earth on May 25, giving astronomers a good look at a space
rock that won’t come this close again for nearly two decades. The flyby brought
it about 14 times farther away than our Moon, but still close enough for
astronomers t ...read more
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On Wednesday, China became the third country to conduct a sea-based space launch when it sent a Long March 11 rocket into orbit carrying experimental tech and five commercial satellites.
The rocket, also named “CZ-11 WEY,” blasted off from a platform in the Yellow Sea built from a modified drilling rig off the coast of the Shandong province. The launch platform itself was announced in a government press release earlier this week. In that ...read more
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Math is famously divisive. Some people like to say they’re not “math people” if they have trouble with the subject (though, that might not actually be a healthy approach). Well, guess who have turned out to be math people? Honeybees!
Devoted readers may recall some past stories on this front. Almost exactly a year ago, we learned that bees can understand basic numbers, including the semi-abstract concept of zero. Then, in February, scien ...read more
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