Public research university in Haifa, Israel, whose faculties include archaeology (the Zinman Institute of Archaeology), zoology, and computer science.
Sled dogs have radius, ulna and tibia bones about 6% shorter than other canids after size adjustment, University of Haifa researchers report. The authors say the proportions could identify possible sled dogs where no sled equipment survives.
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Hannah Farrell's team used a 700,000-year-old elephant molar from Israel's Gesher Benot Ya'aqov to reconstruct woodland and wetland around early toolmakers. The idea that the wet valley eased travel along the Africa-Eurasia land bridge is the authors' inference from one site and one elephant.
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Reported in PNAS, the CLSS model reproduces relationships from the expert-curated ECOD and CATH classifications it never saw in training, and it can place short protein fragments beside complete sequences and structures.
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A PNAS study reports the first direct evidence that Natufian foragers on Mount Carmel ate lizards and snakes, across 20 settlement layers spanning roughly 3,000 years.
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SHIC-XE scores equine pain from video and, its authors say, is the first system whose visual explanations were measured against expert clinical judgement. The second half is the part worth copying.
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