Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Artificial intelligence is learning right from wrong by studying human stories and moral principles. ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Here's to the household names and forgotten figures who accomplished incredible feats of knowledge — no capes required. ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Even though technology has helped measure strength and flag strike zones, earthquakes still have a few mysteries that rattle experts. ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
New research into the cephalopod genome is undermining our assumptions about evolution, and the role that DNA mutations play in updating a species' physiology. Researchers from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and Tel Aviv University have been studying how cephalopods — squids, octopuses, cuttlefish and nautiluses — edit their genome, and found that instead of relying on DNA mutations to adapt, they have the ability to make changes to their RNA, the genetic "messe ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
A case of left-right confusion misled researchers about how dogs process language. Last August, Hungarian neuroscientists Atilla Andics and colleagues reported that the left hemisphere of the dog brain is selectively activated in response to the lexical properties (i.e. the meaning) of spoken words. This result was very interesting, not least because lexical processing is also lateralized to the left hemisphere in most humans. The paper appeared in the prestigious journal Science. However, ...read more