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Crows can recognize individual human faces, hold grudges for years, and teach other crows to dislike specific people they've never met
The 'Chaitin's Constant' (or Omega number), developed by Gregory Chaitin, is an uncomputable real number representing the probability that a randomly constructed program will halt....
Gregory Chaitin
The 'double beta decay' process, a very rare type of radioactive decay, involves the simultaneous emission of two electrons (or positrons) and two antineutrinos, with extremely lon...
Alternative splicing, where different combinations of exons from a single gene are joined together, allows human cells to produce multiple distinct proteins from a much smaller num...
The 'strength anomaly' of ceramics refers to the observation that their strength often increases at very high temperatures, unlike metals, due to the blunting of crack tips or stre...