A team of international physicists has brought Bayes’ centuries-old probability rule into the quantum world. By applying the ...

The National Housing Accord, which began in July 2024, aims to deliver 1.2 million new homes by 2029 - but Treasury has warned the target “will not be met” in advice that was accidentally leaked in a ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Abstract: The accurate estimation of state of health (SOH) for lithium-ion batteries is significant to improve the reliability and safety of batteries in operation. However, many existing studies on ...

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed. U.S. employers and colleges are contending with ...

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In 2014, University of California, Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley wrote a book called The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol. His controversial "drunken monkey hypothesis" proposed that ...

Chimpanzees may consume the equivalent of about one alcoholic drink per day due to the ethanol contained within the fruit they eat, according to a new study. Understanding this behavior of our closest ...

Chimpanzees consume the equivalent of at least one alcoholic drink per day as they eat ripe, fermenting fruit, says a study out Wednesday that addresses one possible reason why humans are drawn to ...

The human attraction to alcoholic beverages could be, to a large extent, inherited from our primate ancestors. And in a way, it’s something we share with our closest living relatives: according to a ...

Scientists estimate chimps’ alcohol consumption for the first time, and find they seem to prefer boozier fruit. Male chimpanzees at the Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire are shown eating. A new study ...