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- Chimpanzees binge on clay to detox and boost the minerals in their diet
- Hormones influence unethical behavior, experts say
- A new litmus test for chaos?
- Identifying ever-growing disturbances leading to freak waves
- Arrow of time: New understanding of causality, free choice, and why we remember the past but not the future
- Dinos with bite: Unique tooth structure allowed predatory dinosaurs to efficiently crunch flesh and bone
| Chimpanzees binge on clay to detox and boost the minerals in their diet Posted: 28 Jul 2015 01:24 PM PDT Wild chimpanzees in the forests of Uganda are increasingly eating clay to supplement the minerals in their diet, according to a long-term international study . The article describes how the researchers observed wild chimpanzees in the Budongo forest eating and drinking from clay pits and termite mounds.  |
| Hormones influence unethical behavior, experts say Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:08 AM PDT Hormones play a two-part role in encouraging and reinforcing cheating and other unethical behavior, according to new research. With cheating scandals a persistent threat on college campuses and financial fraud costing businesses more than $3.7 trillion annually, researchers looked to hormones for more answers, specifically the reproductive hormone testosterone and the stress hormone cortisol.  |
| Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:07 AM PDT Researchers have come up with a new definition of chaos that applies more broadly than Lyapunov exponents and other previous definitions of chaos. The new definition fits on a few lines, can be easily approximated by numerical methods, and works for a wide variety of chaotic systems.  |
| Identifying ever-growing disturbances leading to freak waves Posted: 28 Jul 2015 06:19 AM PDT Physicists now better understand wave systems exhibiting unusual disturbances by identifying growing localized patterns as early indicators of such disturbances.  |
| Posted: 28 Jul 2015 06:19 AM PDT Theoretical physicists have developed a fully-symmetric formulation of quantum theory which establishes an exact link between asymmetry and the fact that we can remember the past but not the future.  |
| Posted: 28 Jul 2015 06:17 AM PDT The Tyrannosaurus rex and its fellow theropod dinosaurs that rampage across the screen in movies like Jurassic World were successful predators partly due to a unique, deeply serrated tooth structure that allowed them to easily tear through the flesh and bone of other dinosaurs, says new research.  |
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