Statistics Predict How Birds Will Chirp Next
Physicists have developed a model that can map out and predict the notes birds sing in sequence. Here’s how it works. The new model is roughly eight times more accurate than previous attempts to unravel complex birdsongs. If the scientists can use the same technique to map and predict chatter in other social animals, they…
Physics & Chemistry
Dave Mosher - Wired
Hayabusa Probe Has Successfully Brought Back First Asteroid Dust to Earth
Astronomers and space geeks the world over have been waiting to hear confirmation from JAXA (the Japanese space agency) that the troubled Hayabusa mission did indeed bring back samples of asteroid dust. Today they got it. For the first time, scientists have collected dust from an extraterrestrial asteroid and returned it to Earth for study.…
Space & Spaceflight
Clay Dillow - PopSci