Guinea baboons grunt with an accent
Musical masterworks such as the Queen of the Night's Aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute, are examples of the sounds trained human voices can produce. The precondition for vocal virtuosity as well as for any spoken word is vocal learning, the ability.....»»
Rare fossil reveals prehistoric Melbourne was once a paradise for tropical pig-nosed turtles
The pig-nosed turtle, an endangered freshwater turtle native to the Northern Territory and southern New Guinea, is unique in many respects. Unlike most freshwater turtles, it is almost completely adapted to life in water. It has paddle-like flippers.....»»
Rare pig-nosed turtles once called Melbourne home
Pig-nosed turtles are found in tropical freshwater ecosystems in northern Australia and New Guinea, only arriving here a few thousand years ago......»»
Novel Lyme vaccine shows promise
Researchers have developed a novel vaccine that in guinea pigs offers protection against infection by the bacterium that causes Lyme disease and may also combat other tick-borne diseases, they report. Instead of triggering an immune response against.....»»
Study shows we can reduce people"s bias against non-native speakers
Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, have published a new study in Cognitive Science that shows people are more likely to believe information given to them by a native speaker rather than those with a foreign accent, but that this b.....»»
Fossil dental exams reveal how tusks first evolved
A wide variety of animals have tusks, from elephants and walruses to five-pound, guinea pig-looking critters called hyraxes. But one thing tusked animals have in common is that they're all mammals—there are no known fish, reptiles, or birds with tu.....»»
Road to uncertainty: Research reveals how Trans Papua may strip 4.5 million hectares of forest by 2036
Indonesia's Papuan land is the western half of New Guinea—the world's second-largest island—which hosts extensive old-growth forests, including mangroves and peat swamps. It has more plant species than any other tropical island......»»
Late Pleistocene humans may have hatched and raised cassowary chicks
As early as 18,000 years ago, humans in New Guinea may have collected cassowary eggs near maturity and then raised the birds to adulthood, according to an international team of scientists, who used eggshells to determine the developmental stage of th.....»»
How to change Alexa’s voice
Tired of Alexa's voice? In this guide, we'll show you how to change your Alexa's accent and spoken language, as well as how to add skills for celebrity voices......»»
Denon finally announces its first true wireless earbuds
On the outside, the AH-C830NCW and AH-C630W are barely distinguishable. Only if we pay attention to the housing finishes and the silver accent at the bottom of the AH-C830NCW, we can see the difference between the two......»»
Robinhood"s Guinea Pig for Upending Public Offerings: Itself
When Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt created the stock trading app Robinhood in 2013, the entrepreneurs declared that their mission was to democratize Wall Street and make finance accessible to all. Now as they prepare to make their company public, they a.....»»
Researchers estimate extraordinary carbon emissions from El Nino-induced biomass burning
Equatorial Asia, which includes Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and surrounding areas, experienced devastating biomass burning in 2015 due to the severe drought condition induced by the extreme El Niño and a positive anomaly of the Indian Oce.....»»
Our genes shape our gut bacteria, new research shows
Researchers discovered that most bacteria in the gut microbiome are heritable after looking at more than 16,000 gut microbiome profiles collected over 14 years from a long-studied population of baboons in Kenya's Amboseli National Park. The team also.....»»
Our genes shape our gut bacteria
Researchers discovered that most bacteria in the gut microbiome are heritable after looking at more than 16,000 gut microbiome profiles collected over 14 years from a long-studied population of baboons in Kenya's Amboseli National Park......»»
India AI startup Dynopii debuts speech accent changer at Computex 2021
India-based AI startup Dynopii is showing a real-time speech accent changer at the ongoing virtual Computex Taipei 2021, aiming to help solution centers address the pain points of communicating with customers carrying different accents, according to.....»»
Decline in languages leads to decline in Indigenous biological knowledge
Around the world, more than 7,000 languages are spoken, most of them by small populations of speakers in the tropics. Papua New Guinea (PNG), where nine million people speak 850 languages, is the most linguistically diverse place on Earth......»»
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
Amazon's experiment wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs. Enlarge (credit: Amazon) If you use Alexa, Echo, or any other Amazon device, you have only 10 days to opt out of an experiment that leaves your personal privacy and sec.....»»
Primates Change Their "Accent" To Avoid Conflict
New research has discovered that monkeys will use the "accent" of another species when they enter its territory to help them better understand one another and potentially avoid conflict. Phys.Org reports: Published in the journal Behavioral Ecology a.....»»
Primates change their "accent" to avoid conflict
New research has discovered that monkeys will use the "accent" of another species when they enter its territory to help them better understand one another and potentially avoid conflict......»»
Study indicates São Tomé island has two species of caecilians found nowhere else on Earth
The Gulf of Guinea islands harbor an abundance of species found nowhere else on Earth. But for over 100 years, scientists have wondered whether or not a population of limbless, burrowing amphibians—known as caecilians—found on one of the islands.....»»
The First Australians grew to a population of millions, much more than previous estimates
We know it is more than 60,000 years since the first people entered the continent of Sahul—the giant landmass that connected New Guinea, Australia and Tasmania when sea levels were lower than today......»»