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Biology
Snake’s Secret Language of UV Rays: Predator Evasion and Camouflage Hidden World
Visible (color) and UV (grayscale) photographs of three pit viper species with wide range of UV reflectance. From top to bottom, the species are the prairie rattlesnake, the western diamondback rattlesnake, and the two-stripe forest pit viper (the green one). All of these snakes are closely related species, but exhibit a wide range of UV reflectance. The white circles in…
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Biology
“Birdsong Chat” may shed light on how language is wired in the human brain
Credit: Images generated by AI Just as ChatGpt and other generative language models create grammatically correct sentences to train human texts, a new modeling method by researchers of the Pennsylvania State Train is to create accurate bird angs. A new modelling method for bird recording. The results could improve understanding of the structure of birds and their underlying neurobiology, which…
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Biology
The whale pattern follows the universal laws of human language, new research finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain All known human languages ​​show surprising patterns. The most frequent words in a language are the second most frequent, the third three times more frequent. This is known as the ZIPF Law. Researchers were looking for evidence of this pattern in communication between other species, but up until now, no other examples were found. In a…
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Physics
Language models can improve physics measurement by improving tau reconstruction.
Jet components are given as input to ML models to predict the characteristics of Taurepton attenuated in Hadronic. Credit: Author: Laurits Tani, Nalong-Norman Seeba, Hardi Vanaveski, Joosep Pata, Torben Lange In order to find rare processes from the Corider data, scientists use a computer algorithm to determine the type and characteristics of the particles based on the faint signals left…
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Other Sciences
Exploring framing effects: The influence of language on thought and society
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Each word was chosen to be included in this sentence. Every message, even the most mundane, is created with a specific frame in mind that influences how the message is received. The study of framing effects is an interdisciplinary study that investigates when, how, and why language influences those who receive messages, and how this influences…
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Other Sciences
Study finds that mother’s language choice has twice the impact on bilingual families
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research shows mothers have twice as much influence on language contact, calling into question traditional parenting advice. Parents who want to raise bilingual children have long been given advice to “follow a strict one parent, one language approach.” But a recent Concordia University study published in the journal Child Development found that bilingual Montreal families…
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Other Sciences
How immigrant families pass on their native language to their children depends on their personal history.
Credit: RDNE Stock Project from Pexels According to Statistics Canada, one in four Canadians had at least one native language other than English or French in 2021. Many people grow up with a family heritage language such as Mandarin, Punjabi, Spanish or Arabic as part of their family cultural heritage. But why are some families successful in passing on their…
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Other Sciences
The Trump-Harris debate shows how language reveals personality
The chart shows what Trump and Harris said about key variables during the September 10 presidential debate. Credit: Vivek Astvansh, CC BY. An analysis of US presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s word choice during their recent debate reveals five insights into their personalities. First, my co-authors and I found that while Trump mentioned himself more than Harris, Harris…
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