Science news articles about 'friends and enemies'

  • Physics Model Determines Dynamics of Friends and Enemies

    ... PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes friends can become enemies and enemies become friends, and it`s difficult to understand exactly how or why the changes took place. A new study ...
  • Birds call to warn friends and enemies

    Birds' alarm calls serve both to alert other birds to danger and to warn off predators. And some birds can pull a ventriloquist's trick, singing from the side of their mouths, according to a UC Davis ...
  • Plotting and treachery in ant royal families

    ... have been called "walking chemical factories", because they produce many different odours for tasks such as recognising friends and enemies and signalling their status and role within ...
  • Game theoretic machine learning methods can help explain long periods of conflict

    ... in history and consider the possibility that what predicts long periods of conflict is how we respond to the actions of our friends and enemies in their conflicts." "This new empirically-grounded ...
  • 'They are trying to silence me'

    ... , rock music and hanging around with his friends. He works hard at school and tries ... room of his family's house in a cul-de-sac in Cardiff, is gaining him friends and enemies. He is winning plaudits from within ...
  • Social networks may inflate self-esteem, reduce self-control

    ... in the Journal of Consumer Research. Titled "Are Close Friends the Enemy? Online Social Networks, Self ... cards they own and the amount of debt on them, and how many friends they have offline, among other questions. "The results suggest ...
  • New Eyewear Could Help People with Red-Green Color Blindness

    ... oxygenation and hemoglobin variations in skin in order to detect social cues, emotions and the states of our friends or enemies. Just think about the reddening and whitening ...
  • Structual Balance: Rock Hyrax Has Frenemies Too

    ... in deciding who to befriend or to abandon - a "frenemy" is someone who is both friend and enemy while the old military ... of my enemy is my friend'. Animal social networks also use sophistication in judging social configurations ...

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