Gaming monkeys' curiosity: Japanese macaques actively explore moderately uncertain stimuli

A new study warns that unless atmospheric carbon is reduced immediately, future summers will become even hotter and future wildfires even more destructive. A research team led by Professor Seung-Ki Min of the Department of Environmental Engineering at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has found that merely achieving "carbon neutrality" by reducing emissions is not sufficient to significantly reduce extreme wildfire risk. The team argues that active "carbon reduction"—removing

On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's voting map on the basis that the state had illegally used race as a consideration when it created a new majority-Black district. Observers say the ruling could have major implications across the country for how future district boundary decisions are made under the Voting Rights Act. Meanwhile, ahead of the November midterms, lawmakers in several states have been redrawing their district maps to favor one party or the other, or are consi

Ph.D. student Hanne Kloster at the University of Agder (UiA) is behind the first Norwegian study to look at three tick-borne diseases in dogs simultaneously, covering the whole country. The paper is published in the journal Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica.

In a process analogous to how solids melt into liquids, the electrons in many different metals form crystal-like patterns that can deform and melt, opening new pathways for neuromorphic computing and superconductors, University of Michigan Engineering researchers have found.