Technology

A team of Greek researchers from the University of Patras has created software that remotely detects whether a person in a crowd has consumed too much alcohol and can therefore become violent and cause problems in public places such as airports, sports stadiums or stations. train.

Researchers at Emory University have concluded that monkeys can benefit from a reciprocal exchange of favors without the need to keep an accurate record of past favors. The findings have been published in 'PNAS'.

Few fossils allow us to describe the Denisovan hominid, related to Neanderthals and modern humans. So far the only known remains - which may have belonged to a girl - are a phalanx of the little finger and two molars discovered in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia. But a new high-resolution genomic sequence, similar to that carried out in the genomes of living people, has made it possible to obtain detailed information on these archaic humans.

Researchers from Zaragoza have just described the smallest plant-eating dinosaur in Spain. It is called Gideonmantellia amosanjuanae, and it reached a length of just two meters and weighs 20 kilos as an adult. With an age of 130 million years, it would correspond to an agile and fast dinosaur, adapted to run fast in order to escape predators as it lacks a defensive shield, like a Cretaceous gazelle.

Using the ALMA radio telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), a group of astronomers has detected sugar molecules in the gas that surrounds a young star similar to the Sun. This is the first time that sugar has been discovered in space around a star of these characteristics. The finding suggests that the basic pieces to build life are at the right time and place to be part of the planets in formation around the star.

62% of people who watch television use social networks at the same time, according to a study carried out by Ericsson. The figure implies an increase of 18% compared to last year's figures. The document indicates that more women show this behavior (69%).

Simulating the space-time conditions of black hole systems in a supercomputer is one of the ways by which the scientific community could detect these regions of space of enormous density and that concentrate a large amount of mass inside, generating a gravitational field. such that no particle, not even light, can escape from them.

With the help of NASA's Kepler space satellite, a team of astronomers has discovered for the first time a transiting circumbinary multiplanetary system, consisting of two planets orbiting two stars. It is located 4,900 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Swan, and the stars outshine each other every 7.5 days, the researchers explained. One of the stars is similar to the Sun in size but with 84% of its brightness. The other is a third of the size of our star and its brightness is negligible.