WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- The American Association for the Advancement of Science issued the following news: By Nathaniel Bowers After decades of groundwork, red-cockaded woodpeckers are rebounding, satellite imagery has enabled remote animal monitoring, and a cognitive model from the 1970s underpins AI. The three teams behind these advancements received this year's Golden Goose Award, which celebrates the wide-ranging impact of seemingly silly or obscure federally funded research that has led t more PR

LAUREL, Maryland, Sept. 25 (TNSres) -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: As the Department of Defense aims to accelerate delivery of autonomous systems to the warfighter, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) are lending their insights and expertise to rapidly integrate, test and assess low-cost, uncrewed maritime systems under a comprehensive Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineer more PR

MUNICH, Germany, Sept. 24 [Category: Science] (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: Speech consists of a continuous stream of acoustic signals, yet humans can segment words from each other with astonishing precision and speed. To find out how this is possible, a team of linguists has analysed durations of consonants at different positions in words and utterances across a diverse sample of languages. They have found that word-initial consonants are, on average, around 13  more PR