German research university in Tübingen, Germany, known for work across archaeology, biology, physics, medicine, and AI research.
Researchers from Tübingen and Leiden identify a macaque baby tooth over 300,000 years old as the northernmost macaque find in continental Europe. The team judges that macaques had likely reached the northern limit of their range there.
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Tübingen researchers named Bathynomus tuebingoborikensis, a giant isopod kept unrecognized in their university's paleontology collection since the 1980s. Working from that one dried animal, the team traces the genus to the Miocene Gulf of Mexico more than 15 million years ago.
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Helmholtz Center researchers and collaborators built a 21-species gut community and found plant fiber boosted Segatella copri only when Enterobacteriaceae such as E. coli were also present. The result complicates diet-only accounts of why industrialized and nonindustrialized gut microbiomes differ.
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UNIST researchers showed the cue-conflict test can give a vision model with 8 correct shape answers in 100 the same 80 percent shape score as one with 80. Their replacement, REFINED-BIAS, scores each cue separately, so model comparisons built on the old ratio need rerunning.
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A perforated ivory rod from Hohle Fels was catalogued as a prestige object until its discoverer noticed spiral grooves inside each hole, and a replication with cattail fiber suggests it made rope that never survived.
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Chemists in Tubingen measured the selectivity first and could not explain it. Crystallography at Buffalo found that the molecule bumps a flexible loop on p38 delta, and the loop kinks and wraps around it.
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Gabriele Russo's team re-read fossils excavated in Lebanon more than a century ago, dating Ras el-Kelb to about 400,000 years and Nahr Ibrahim to about 250,000, and finding forests unlike the southern Levant's.
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Gerald Mayr's team named two genera new to science, including the eagle Mioaetus pforzenensis, at a site where only one bone find in 40 is a bird. The additions bring the fish-eating birds level with the fish-eating mammals.
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The method is a brute search over combinations of equipment already sitting in the lab rather than anything like a chatbot, which moves the scarce human skill from wiring the setup to writing down exactly what the setup should maximise.
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In a Tübingen listening study, pleasantness tracked four measurable acoustic properties of the recording. Identification skill did not come into it, which turns soundscape choice into a specification problem.
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A statistical study of tool shapes puts Neanderthals in the Saudi desert about 55,000 years ago. The inference is careful, the climate story is tidy, and the skeletal evidence is nonexistent.
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Florida State linguists traced "delve" to the human-feedback stage, not the training corpus or the architecture. The GitHub tools built to hide it are still shipping word lists.
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