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Orangutans show engineering skills when building nests
BBC News Orangutans show remarkably advanced engineering skills when making nests, researchers say. The researchers, led by scientists at the University of Manchester, followed and filmed the apes in the forests of Sumatra. The team also took orangutans’ nests apart … Continue reading
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Bilingual children switch tasks faster than speakers of a single language
Robert Bock EurekAlert Bilinguals slower to build vocabulary but better at multitasking. Children who grow up learning to speak two languages are better at switching between tasks than are children who learn to speak only one language, according to a … Continue reading
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Oldest organism with skeleton discovered in Australia
Iqbal Pittalwala EurekAlert RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A team of paleontologists has discovered the oldest animal with a skeleton. Called Coronacollina acula, the organism is between 560 million and 550 million years old, which places it in the Ediacaran period, before … Continue reading
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DARPA Cheetah Sets Speed Record for Legged Robots
DARPA Tv This video shows a demonstration of the “Cheetah” robot galloping at speeds of up to 18 miles per hour (mph), setting a new land speed record for legged robots. The previous record was 13.1 mph, set in 1989. … Continue reading
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