The long-complained housing shortage may not exist after all. Rather, there is a shortage of cheap rents and affordable housing, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed study, published in April in the scientific journal Debate on housing policy, found that the US had a surplus of 3.3 million homes between 2000 and 2020 – … Read more
Building compact behavioral programs. (A) Above: The space of strategies for solving a task can be wide, with many strategies yielding good performance. Bottom: Studying relationships between strategies can provide insight into behavioral variability between animals and tasks. (B) General task design: an animal makes inferences about hidden properties of the environment to guide actions. … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Building compact behavioral programs. (A) Above: The space of strategies for solving a task can be wide, with many strategies yielding good performance. Bottom: Studying relationships between strategies can provide insight into behavioral variability between animals and tasks. (B) General … Read more
How safe are Google Chrome extensions? SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Two new reports reveal markedly different opinions about the security of Chrome browser extensions. Google says less than 1% of all installations contain malware, while university researchers say 280 million users installed extensions containing malware over a three-year period. Neither figure gives … Read more
There is rarely a mountain as majestic as the Himalayas, which rise so high into the sky that people feel like a dot standing in front of them. But it is a lesser known fact that the Himalayas are not only scenic but also a field considered important for the study of geology. A 2023 … Read more
Hong-Kong CNN — Suspected debris from a Chinese missile fell to the ground over a village in southwestern China on Saturday, leaving a trail of bright yellow smoke and sending villagers fleeing, according to videos on Chinese social media and sent to CNN by a local witness. The dramatic images surfaced online shortly after a … Read more
Google this week reassured that vetting Chrome extensions catches most malicious code, even as it acknowledged that “as with any software, extensions can also pose risks.” Coincidentally, a trio of researchers from Stanford University in the US and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany have just published a paper on recent data … Read more
When it comes to British weather, you win some and you lose some (Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto) The British summer has finally decided to make an appearance – just as a ‘pollen bomb’ is exploding in almost every part of the country. The first heatwave of the year will see temperatures in London and some parts … Read more
Composite image of fluorescently labeled nuclei in each cell of five different C. elegans, captured in the Advanced Light Microscopy Unit at the CRG. Credit: Jeremy Vicencio, Nadia Halidi/Centro de Regulación Genómica Why do some people live longer than others? The genes in our DNA sequence are important and help prevent disease or maintain general … Read more
Sergio Pitamitz/VWPics/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Two male African elephants exhibit same-sex sexual behavior in Tsavo, Kenya. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — Same-sex sexual behavior has been observed in more than 1,500 species, but a new study has found … Read more