Summary: Music plays a powerful role in how we perceive and express emotion—and a new study finds that even very young children can match emotions in music to facial expressions.…
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Did you walk or cycle to school as a child? Your children are likely to follow in your footsteps
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain If you used physically active modes of commuting to school, your children are likely to do the same. A study published in the European Journal of…
Pioneer spirit drives Swiss solar-powered plane altitude attempt
Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan waved to friends and family prior to take-off. Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan on Friday made his first attempt of the year at setting a new aviation…
Quantum technologies—’Standards currently offer a greater chance of success than regulation,’ says researcher
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain How can quantum technologies be developed responsibly? In the journal Science, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the University of Cambridge, Harvard University and…
How Uber steers its drivers toward better performance
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research shows that the app’s ratings and incentive system has made drivers in Chicago as safe and reliable as taxi drivers. The findings suggest regulators…
Towards better earthquake risk assessment with machine learning and geological survey data
By including geographic coordinates, elevation, and stratigraphic information as input variables, researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology have compared three different ML algorithms (RF, ANN, and SVM) for predicting the…
Hubble Telescope gives us our best look yet at the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (video, photo)
Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now have the sharpest image yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, showing that it is clearly a comet, with a coma filled with…
EU advises DR Congo against oil drilling in “Green Corridor”
The European Union has advised the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) not to allow oil drilling in a huge stretch of land spanning nature-rich rainforests and peatlands which the EU…
Squashing the spotted lanternfly problem may require enlisting other species
A beautiful menace is on the move in the United States. Polka-dotted, red-and-gray-winged insects are gliding along sidewalks, climbing on plants and crawling up buildings. Spotted youngsters are leaping away…
