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Finding wild chimpanzees is not easy. In the first ten years we spent scouring the remote woodlands of western Tanzania in search of them, we caught only fleeting glimpses and brief views of their shadows avoiding our very presence. Chimpanzees are naturally clever and elusive. They seem to know where you will go before you known yourself. And they have an amazing way of blending into the forest or else escaping undetected.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-chimp-dna-techniques-jungle.html

Bitcoin, the best known of hundreds of 'virtual' coins, slumped Tuesday to a six-week low below $12,000 as analysts blamed a rush by various jurisdictions to regulate the sector.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-bitcoin-cryptocoins.html

The European Parliament called Tuesday for a ban on electric pulse fishing in the European Union, defying Brussels which wants the experimental practice in the North Sea done on a larger scale.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-eu-parliament-electric-pulse-fishing.html

For us humans, a healthy brain handles all the minute details of bodily motion without demanding conscious attention. Not so for brainless robots – in fact, calculating robotic movement is its own scientific subfield.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-robot-math-smartphones-drug-discovery.html

General Electric said Tuesday it would book a one-off charge of $6.2 billion on its accounts for the fourth quarter of 2017, following a review of its insurance businesses.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-ge-one-off-bn-linked.html

Astronomers have performed abundance measurements for 11 globular clusters in the galaxies NGC 147, NGC 6822, and Messier 33. The new study, presented January 9 in a paper published on arXiv.org, could improve our knowledge about chemical composition of stellar populations in the universe.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-astronomers-chemical-analysis-eleven-globular.html