Developing athletic ability requires practice, even for robots. Using an approach driven by trial and error called deep reinforcement learning, researchers at DeepMind helped these soccer-playing robots develop skills, agility, and techniques to improve their play--all at a higher level than could be manually programmed. The computer “agents” controlling the robots picked up the rules and nuances of the game by observing human soccer players, then playing against each other in both simulations and using real-life robots. Robots play each other to improve their game, get computational “coaching,” and even mimic defensive moves of human players. While these athletic machines may not be making starting lineups anytime soon, computer scientists hope that this ability to learn and perform complex tasks in unpredictable environments will prove useful well beyond the soccer field.
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Published: 6th May 2024 03:00:31 By: Science Magazine
Science News Video: Why are these #frogs such clumsy jumpers?
Scientists have figured out why some miniaturized frogs from Brazil are such clumsy jumpers. A 2022 study published in Science Advances reveals that among adult vertebrates, members of the genus Brachycephalus have the smallest known semicircular canals – the part of the inner ear necessary for maintaining balance and spatial orientation.
The diminutive size of these canals results in low sensitivity to angular acceleration, preventing the frogs from controlling their posture as they prepare to land.
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Published: 3rd May 2024 03:00:44 By: Science Magazine
Science News Video: #mussels use their ‘beard’ to hang tight and let loose
In order to withstand the crashing waves, mussels have strong filaments called byssal threads to help them stick to rocky surfaces with surprising strength. When needed, the bivalves can also release these threads with seemingly little effort.
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Researchers created a robot that uses advanced structural designs and a laser broiler to make this 3D printed cake hold its form. The robot can create and cook a cake with up to seven ingredients, more than any other printed food to date.
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Evolutionary biologist Kurt Schwenk uses high-speed cameras to study the tongues of lizards. In slow motion you can see that in addition to being sticky, chameleon tongues can actually help them actually grasp their prey.
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For years, scientists couldn't solve the mystery of strange pits on the floor of the North Sea. Initially they blamed methane seeps, but it seems like the pits were actually made on porpoise.
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There's a troubling link between COVID and certain cancers, but as always, it's complicated.
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Science News Video: One Weird Reason People Suck at Parking
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Human territoriality results in some pretty ridiculous behaviors. And luckily, scientists have studied it in all kinds of situations.
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Science News Video: How These Animals Lost Their Heads (And Bodies, and Butts)
You'd think that there are some features that, once an animal group evolved to have them, could never really go away, right? Well, Stefan is joined today by hosts from PBS Eons, Journey To The Microcosmos, and Bizarre Beasts to break down just how wrong that is! And yes, we will be talking about tardigrades.
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Science News Video: The Alien Storm That Ate Itself
From cyclones to snowstorms, Earth is home to some spectacular weather events. But they're nothing compared to what you can find on the other planets in our solar system. Magnetic tornadoes? Ammonia mushballs? Let's (not literally) dive into some extreme space storms!
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Two belugas at an aquarium bob their heads up and down, shaking their blobs of forehead fat — called melons — at one another. One of five distinct melon shapes that the whales make, “shake” seems to be associated with courtship and sexual behaviors, a new study suggests.
Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/belugas-communicate-warping-forehead-fat
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Published: 2nd May 2024 05:06:37 By: Science News
Science News Video: This robot can anticipate a person’s smile — and smile back | Science News
By analyzing hundreds of videos, Emo learned how to predict facial expressions from human muscle movement. The robot demonstrates its skills by smiling in sync with researcher Yuhang Hu.
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Central Washington University undergraduates Eli Pugsley (left) and Jo Burke (right) launch a weather balloon from a pier in Wills Point, Texas, to collect information about the eclipse’s effect on the atmosphere. Along with their professor, space physicist Darci Snowden, the team from Ellensburg, Wash., were one of many teams along the path of totality taking part in NASA’s Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project.
Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/totality-scientists-studied-planets-reactions-solar-eclipse
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Fruit flies walk normally on a treadmill that moves at a steady pace on both sides (left). Flies can also adjust to a treadmill that has two different speeds (right). Careful analyses of stepping patterns revealed that flies' middle legs helped keep the fly moving ahead.
Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fruit-flies-walk-treadmills-behavior
Video: B.G. Pratt et al/bioRxiv 2024
Made of simple belts, pulleys and motors and covered with a nonstick enclosure, this tiny treadmill enables scientists to study fruit flies as they walk normally.
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Steel production at the turn of the twentieth century was difficult, dangerous, and necessary. Pittsburgh's Carrie Furnace aided immensely in this process, fulfilling much of the United State's steel demand.
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Science Channel Video: Just How Powerful Is a Gamma Ray Burst? | How the Universe Works | Science Channel
ASASSN-15lh was first detected on June 14, 2015, and is the most luminous supernova ever observed. Unimaginably far away, and unimaginably powerful, a supernova on the scale of ASSASN-15lh has the capacity to vaporize life existing up to 1,000 light-years away-- uh oh!
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Science Channel Video: Bending a Neon Sign | How It's Made | Science Channel
It's a sign, this inside glimpse at the manufacturing of different signage was 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙩 for you!
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