A recent study showed that the heart rate variability of a dog and its owner adapt to each other during interaction. High heart rate variability is associated with relaxation, while low heart rate variability indicates stimulation. The study deepens our understanding of the emotional connection between a dog and its owner, including its underlying physiological […]

When people have an audience watching them, it can change their performance for better or worse. Now, researchers have found that chimpanzees’ performance on computer tasks is influenced by the number of people watching them. The findings suggest that this ‘audience effect’ predates the development of reputation-based human societies, the researchers say. Read Full Article […]

Computer science researchers have developed a new crowdsourcing system that dramatically slashes wildfire mapping time from hours to seconds using a network of low-cost mobile phones mounted on properties in high fire threat areas. In computer simulations, the system, FireLoc, detected blazes igniting up to 3,000 feet away and successfully mapped wilderness fires to within […]