无论在YouTube还是Instagram，一代新型“网红”潮流似乎已经袭来。他们是虚拟人物，却时常以假乱真，如同现实人类一样聊天。未来，我们的偶像会是一群虚拟人类吗？ “绊爱”（Kizuna AI）在YouTube上有230万粉丝。她几乎每天都会发布视频，面对镜头讨论生活、爱情和电子游戏。 但她实际上是一个由电脑生成的虚构角色，外表是一个年轻女人，声音来自一名演员。她自称是先进的人工智能。 她也是近段时间风靡日本的虚拟YouTube博主之一。 虚拟视频博主们拥有卡通的外表，运用廉价的运动传感技术生成。…

Whether children will enjoy academic success can be now predicted at birth, a new study suggests.

"The future of hair loss looks very promising and this study shows that baldness may soon be optional," said Dr. Michele Green.

Scientific Reports - Left-handedness is associated with greater fighting success in humans

Nature Communications - Birch pitch is thought to have been used in prehistoric times as hafting material or antiseptic and tooth imprints suggest that it was chewed. Here, the authors report a...

Study shows brains of adolescents struggling with mental illness are structurally different than healthy peers.

《七个世界，一个星球》（Seven Worlds, One Planet）是BBC Studio 继《蓝色星球》、《地球脉动》和《王朝》之后推出的一部记述与人类共享地球的其他生物的系列纪录片。那些令人震撼、惊心动魄的画面、拨动人心弦的场景、令人匪夷所思的奇观......摄制组成员在这里分享自己的亲身经历和感悟。 《七个世界，一个星球》拍摄期间最令人难忘的经历之一，是去直布罗陀拍巴巴里猕猴（Barbary macaques）那段。 运气不错。我们要拍的那群巴巴里猕猴已经被跟踪、研究多年，所以开机前就对这群…

Caffeine may offset some of the negative effects of an obesogenic diet by reducing lipid storage, weight gain and the production of triglycerides, University of Illinois scientists found in a new study of rats.

Researchers revealed the evolutionary changes in neurotransmitter uptake of VMAT1 by reconstructing ancestral VMAT1 proteins.

New Arts & Sciences research finds that chimpanzees that use a multi-step process and complex tools to gather termites are more likely to share tools with novices. The study helps illuminate chimpanzees’ capacity for prosocial — or helping — behavior, a quality…

In an empirical policy analysis, Nyathi and colleagues estimate changes in vaccine coverage associated with the 2016 California policy (Senate Bill 277) restricting non-medical exemptions for children’s school immunization requirements

Chimpanzees seen clapping, tapping and swaying along to piano rhythms in a music booth

The capacity of re-grown areas of the Amazon rainforest to draw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and combat climate change may have been “vastly overestimated”, scientists fear. The forest is a

(Reuters Health) - Patients with breast cancer who use supplements during chemotherapy may be at an increased risk of recurrence and death, a new study suggests.

【by Seiya】编辑于2019年10月 我刚刚搬家。从天通苑，搬到了顺义的南法信。 天通苑是亚洲最大的居住区，人口可达70~90万，早高峰的地铁5号线天通苑站是北京一道亮丽的风景线。 5号线天通苑早高峰是这样进站的 我在天通苑住了两年，深受其害。 搬家后，通勤地铁变成了窗明几净的15号线。新家这里住户远远少于天通苑，在我的想象中，地铁应当是和谐得多的景象。 结果，早高峰期，我发现我很难挤上地铁。地铁开过来永远是满满当当的，往往每次停车也就够强行挤上去两三个人。 我在这里慢慢排队，常常要等三趟以上地铁…

Brain-like Functions Emerging in a Metallic Nanowire Network—Emerging Fluctuation-based functionalities are Expected to Open a Way to Novel Memory Device Technology—An international joint research tea...

An analysis of shooting deaths in 2015 reveals social factors that may increase risk of death from gun violence.

Most people thrive on a nourishing "social diet" that blends meaningful social interactions (that aren't too emotionally draining) with restorative alone time.