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Both humans and image recognition algorithms can take time to identify the objects and scenes depicted in some images. Emblematic examples of this phenomenon are Mooney images, pictures that are intentionally reduced to patches of black and white, with no shades of gray.
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When amphibians and reptiles get an infection, they sometimes raise their body temperature above its usual level by moving to a warmer environment. This well-documented behavioral response is known as behavioral fever.
The ESA's Euclid has already teased us with some early results. In the past, it's given us a small image covering 60 square degrees of the sky, created with a few days of observations. Those images showed individual targets from the Horsehead Nebula to the Perseus cluster of galaxies.
Test your knowledge of Nobel-prizewinning discoveries in microbiology, genomics and cosmology with questions set by the laureates themselves: Barry Marshall, Jennifer Doudna and Saul Perlmutter
Scientists already back plant-heavy diets to cut food emissions. Now there’s evidence the same foods help the body resist plastic pollution.
Mumbai-based veterinarian Rina Dev was hospitalized for four days recently with a lung infection. “I hope it’s not something from the parrots I was treating,” she told Mongabay India after being…
Scientists at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire say they have discovered a telltale sign of an enjoyable conversation. Apparently the secret of a mutually satisfying chat is a healthy dose of pink noise. Guardian science editor Ian Sample tells co-host Madeleine Finlay how this concept usually associated with physics can be applied to…
