Song of the jungle Bernd Rohrschneider/FLPA By Brian Owens Gorillas sing and hum when eating, a discovery that could help shed light on how language evolved in early humans. Singing seems to be a way for gorillas to express contentment with their meal, as well as for the head of the family to…

FBI headquarters in Washington. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post) The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more…

Niran Babalola Feb 29, 2016 Americans have always used housing policy to force “undesirable” people to live somewhere else. By 1948, the Supreme Court prevented cities from enforcing racial segregation via the widespread practices of racial zoning laws and racially restrictive covenants . When the…

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Science and medicine have done a lot for the world. Diseases have been eradicated, rockets have been sent to the moon, and convincing, causal explanations have been given for a whole range of formerly inscrutable phenomena. Notwithstanding recent concerns about sloppy research , small sample sizes ,…

Ken Jennings, left, and Brad Rutter with “Watson.” The computer’s “Jeopardy!” win in 2011 drove interest in artificial intelligence. Credit Seth Wenig/Associated Press When IBM’s Watson computer triumphed over human champions in the quiz show “Jeopardy!” it was a stunning achievement that suggested…

Enlarge / The Fairchild Channel F with hard-wired controllers, released in 1976. Evan Amos / Wikimedia The Fairchild Channel F Steve Wozniak, who would go on to found Apple with Steve Jobs, applied for an engineering job in Lawson’s gaming division at Fairchild while they were working on the Channel…

The shoe company Toms is using technology to measure the effectiveness of outdoor ads like this billboard, which was displayed in Orlando, Fla. Credit Clear Channel Outdoor Pass a billboard while driving in the next few months, and there is a good chance the company that owns it will know you were…

According to study coordinator Heiner Linke, who heads nanoscience at Lund University in Sweden, “ a biocomputer requires less than one percent of the energy an electronic transistor needs to carry out one calculation step.” A biocomputer is useful because ordinary computers are incapable of solving…

Changing times … London, 1950.Photograph: Haywood Magee/Getty Images I n March 1946, scientists recorded the birth of almost every British baby born in one, cold week. They have been following thousands of them ever since, in what has become the longest running major study of human development in…

Nearly four years after Los Angeles County passed new requirements for pornographic performers, the porn industry has spread to nearby counties like Ventura County — and much of that filming is happening in residents' homes with or without their knowledge, the NBC4 I-Team has learned. Private…

Love and unicorns … can software make us nicer people? It was a book on the curious decline of the murder rate that gave Aja Bogdanoff her idea. Her job back then stopped short of actual bloodshed, but it left her no stranger to the dark side of human nature. A software engineer who built and…

Sam Edwards | Getty Images. It's trickier to get away with insider trading nowadays but does it still exist on Wall Street? "1,000 percent," One trader said. "Insider trading used to be so easy," a hedge-fund trader of 15 years said. "The days of getting a wink of an upgrade, a nod of an eminent…

President Obama, meeting Thursday with his National Security Council, wants more intelligence experts to see information intercepted by the National Security Agency. Credit Zach Gibson/The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is on the verge of permitting the National Security Agency…

Apple hires plenty of interns all year round, but one particular addition revealed this week caught the eye given the company’s current position opposing a controversial order to enable the FBI to access the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. Frederic Jacobs , a Switzerland-based…

Here’s a tricky task. Pick a photograph from the Web at random. Now try to work out where it was taken using only the image itself. If the image shows a famous building or landmark, such as the Eiffel Tower or Niagara Falls, the task is straightforward. But the job becomes significantly harder when…

A federal judge sentenced former California state senator Leland Yee on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, to five years in prison. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) On the surface, the story of Leland Yee looks like a precipitous fall from grace. The 67-year-old had risen steadily in the ranks of Bay Area…

Update: Read Brent’s interview with the Observer about the response to publishing a fake book on Amazon, and how it unexpectedly became a real one in the process. I would like to tell you about the biggest lie in book publishing. It appears in the biographies and social media profiles of almost…

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Adolphe Quetelet was born in Belgium in 1796. At age 23 he received the first doctorate in mathematics ever awarded by the University of Ghent. Smart and hungry for recognition, he wanted to make a name for himself like one of his heroes, Sir Isaac Newton. Quetelet marveled at the way Newton…

Nature | News Sharing For the first time, astronomers have traced an enigmatic blast of radio waves to its source. Mark Zastrow Corrected: 25 February 2016 Article tools Rights & Permissions Alex Cherney The Australia Telescope Compact Array, in New South Wales, which helped to identify the location…

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In January, British actor Eddie Redmayne made headlines around the world as he became the latest in a growing band of smartphone refuseniks. “It was a reaction against being glued permanently to my iPhone during waking hours,” he explained, turning instead to an old-fashioned “dumb phone” handset…

Enlarge Zuzu In February 2014, thousands of Asus router owners found a disturbing text file saved to their devices. "This is an automated message being sent out to everyone effected [sic]," the message read . "Your Asus router (and your documents) can be accessed by anyone in the world with an…

If you’re like me, you might have opened up your Windows 10 laptop today only to see a giant ad for Square Enix’s Rise of the Tomb Raider plastered across your login screen. This is the work of the “Windows Spotlight” feature in your Personalization settings, and thankfully, you can turn it off for…

Dressing for extreme cold is no laughing matter. Not only do you have to wear lots of bulky clothes, you need to ensure there’s adequate layering so that the frigid winds stay out. Severe winters are horrible for the fashion-conscious amongst us – there’s simply no alternative to looking big, banal,…

Step back from the campaign fray for just a moment and consider the enormity of what's already occurred. A 74-year-old Jew from Vermont who describes himself as a democratic socialist, who wasn't even a Democrat until recently, came within a whisker of beating Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses,…

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Turning to Snowden, has he communicated, other than through Twitter, has he influenced the way you guys think about this? I communicate with him regularly, and he influences my thinking on all of these issues. My colleagues like Chris Soghoian are pretty confident in their views about these issues.…

Since 2010, the International Monetary Fund's outlook for global growth has disappointed. And every year, the IMF cuts its global growth forecast only to have that lowered forecast eventually prove too aggressive. For a brief period in 2011 and 2012, the IMF's forecast for the global economy was a…

As you’re reading this blog post silently to yourself, do you hear an inner voice speaking the words in your head? A new paper published in Psychosis suggests that most people do hear an internal voice when they’re reading. But as this is one of the first ever investigations into the question, and…

F ew creatures can boast of devotions so deep as greylag geese. Most are monogamous; many spend their decade-long adult lives with the same goose, side-by-side in constant communication, taking another partner only if the first should die. It’s a remarkable degree of fidelity, and it includes…

State of the Union The Seven Habits of Highly Depolarizing People How to make friends and influence people on the other side of the aisle. David Blankenhorn is president of the New York City-based Institute for American Values. You can follow him on Twitter @Blankenhorn3 . This essay is the second…

Frequent fliers sometimes go to great lengths to keep their airline élite status, and those efforts are often completely out of proportion to the perks. Credit Photograph by Kent Nishimura / The Denver Post via Getty When you fly a lot for work, as I do, you check your frequent-flier mile balance…

DENVER — Nestled between a 7-Eleven and a store selling Broncos jerseys, the door to the generic-looking retail establishment is easy to miss. But once inside, the smell is unmistakable. At Euflora, tables are filled with glass containers of marijuana next to interactive tablets describing each…

It seems that Google is rolling out a change to Google AdWords that sees 4 ads at the top of the search results, none on the sidebar at all, and an additional 3 ads at the bottom of the search results. This replaces the usual mix of top, bottom and sidebar-heavy AdWords ads, depending on the…

Even if the spy, Allen Dulles, should arrive in heaven through somebody’s absentmindedness, he would begin to blow up the clouds, mine the stars, and slaughter the angels. —Ilya Ehrenburg I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It’s a…

Something rather interesting is happening at the Gmail.com domain right now. Google has started notifying users of its experimental ‘Inbox By Gmail’ service that this has replaced their Gmail account… The pop-up appears when Inbox users login and states “Thanks for trying Inbox! To make it easier…

The impression from Figure 2 is that the relationship between stocks and oil is itself volatile, with the correlation between the returns to stocks and to oil swinging between positive and negative values. In other words, sometimes the prices of stocks and oil move in the same direction, sometimes…