science

“Scientists at Duke University say they've unlocked the mystery of how herpes simplex 1 slips into dormancy and stays dormant -- evading the drugs that might otherwise wipe it out.”

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"Talking Hands" takes readers to a place like nowhere else on earth: the village of Al-Sayyid, a remote Bedouin community in Israel where everyone "speaks” sign language. There, scientists are discovering the essential ingredients of all human language - and more...

“To begin with, let's get things straight and admit up front that Godzilla is not a real animal, nor was it ever. It's an unfeasibly big late-surviving dinosaur (belonging to the hypothetical taxon Godzillasaurus, according to some), mutated by radiation, more...

“Character animation in video games—whether manually key-framed or motion captured—has traditionally relied on codifying skeletons early in a game's development, and creating animations rigidly tied to these fixed skeleton morphologies. This paper introduces a novel system for animating characters wh more...

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“Just go see it. I don't know how Pixar will be able to top this one. It took my breath away scene after scene. In some moments I started to tear up at the sheer lyrical beauty of it. I more...

in-degree/out-degree distribution of the Wikipedia's hyperlink graph in logarithmic coordinates. The distribution follows a simple geometric pattern (an "ant-hill").

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“Making a dent in the climate crisis is going to take more than solar panels and recycled toilet paper.”

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Boston Dynamics keeps working on their BigDog quadruped robot, which will probably grow to be the future AT-AT of the Pentagon. See it climb through rubble, snow, jump over obstacles like a wild goat, and save a near-fall on iced more...

“When Death met the philosopher, the philosopher said, rather excitedly: "At this point, you realise, I'm both dead and not dead."”

“A patient whose skin cancer had spread throughout his body has been given the all-clear after being injected with billions of his own immune cells.”