Bob Yirka

A team of cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Zurich, has found that ancient Aztec "skull whistles" found in gravesites are able to instill fear in modern people. In their study, published in the journal Communications Psychology, the group recorded the neural and psychological responses of volunteers as they listened to the screams produced by the whistles.

November 18, 2024 report This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:

November 19, 2024 report This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:

November 19, 2024 report This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:

A pair of biologists at Walla Walla University, in the U.S., have developed a way to calculate the energy costs for certain types of animals with color-changing abilities. In their study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sofie Sonner and Kirt Onthank measured oxygen consumption rates for multiple octopuses during color changes.

A team of archaeologists and paleontologists at the Jiangxi Provincial Museum, working with colleagues from Yunnan University, all in China, has found that the unearthed skeletal remains of an ankylosaurid dinosaur uncovered in 1986 at a dig site at the Tangbian Formation near the village of Longxi in Jiangxi province in a southern part of China represent a new species.

A small team of AI researchers at Adobe Inc., working with a colleague from Auburn University and another from Georgia Tech, has developed a small language model (SLM) that they claim can be run locally on a smart phone with no access to the cloud. The group has written a paper describing their new app, which they call SlimLM, and have posted it to the arXiv preprint server.

November 20, 2024 report This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:

November 21, 2024 report This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:

A team of computer engineers and AI specialists at Microsoft, working with a pair of colleagues from the University of Chicago, has led to the development of a new language that allows LLMs to speak with one another more efficiently. The group has posted a paper outlining the ideas behind the new language, how it works and the sorts of improvements in efficiency it can lead to, on the arXiv preprint server.