Tag: "smarter" at biology news

Solutions that reduce death of marine life reeled in by International Smart Gear Competition

...cific Community. "It's just common sense to create smarter fishing gear." An international panel of expert judges unanimously awarded the grand prize and $25,000 to Beverly, an American working in New Caledonia and a former high school biology teacher, commercial fisherman, commercial diver and tugboat oper...

Computers close in on protein structure prediction

...ugh for biology. Better models will depend on both smarter exploration strategies and more computer power. "If methods stayed where we are, we wouldn't solve the problem," Baker said. "On the other hand, we would do better with 10 times more computer time." It takes less than one minute for a protein to fol...

'Uniquely human' component of language found in gregarious birds

...ilities of many animals." "These birds are a lot smarter than you might think," Margoliash said. "They have innate abilities. They solve interesting problems and learn difficult tasks. Any number of times during the experiments I said 'they can't possibly do that,' and they did." "There has long been a...

Creating a window on 'oceans in motion'

...tionary new technologies open the path not just to smarter fisheries management, to better sea life conservation measures, and to the potential of abundant and sustainable stocks of commercial fish, they will also provide scientists with a massive increase in observations of rapidly shifting marine condition...

Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes

...d to filter videos for anomalous behaviors ?or for smarter movie editing. ...

Marine phytoplankton changes form to protect itself from different predators

...the carbon cycle of cold-water oceans may be a lot smarter than scientists had suspected. In a paper published June 11 in the online version of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers report the first evidence that a common species of saltwater algae – also known as phytoplankton – can ...

Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming

...g fossil fuels, and then we'll be on to better and smarter things, one hopes. If we're going to be creating greenhouse gases for another hundred years, it's a huge problem right now, so you have to get on this point. But nonetheless, our dependence on fossil fuels is not going to last forever.''...

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