by PeerJ Staff | Aug 12, 2014 | regular
In a new study published in PeerJ today, researchers compared the ‘yawn contagion’ effect between humans and bonobos. By doing so they were able to directly compare the empathic abilities of ourselves with another species, and they found that a close...
by PeerJ Staff | Jul 31, 2014 | regular
Today, we are excited to announce the publication of our 500th article! We would like to thank our Authors, Reviewers, Academic Editors, and all our supporters for helping us to reach this exciting milestone. So today, our Interview with an Author is with Prof. Ubaka...
by PeerJ Staff | Jul 22, 2014 | regular
Today we published a method for machine-aided skim reading, which outperforms tools like PubMed in terms of focused browsing and informativeness of the browsing context. We were very interested in hearing more about this tool so we invited the first author Vit Novacek...
by PeerJ Staff | Jul 17, 2014 | regular
Today we published an article which combines feature-learning – an automatic analysis technique – and a classification algorithm, to create a system that can detect which bird species are present in a large dataset. This automatic large-scale...
by PeerJ Staff | Jul 11, 2014 | regular
You certainly couldn’t miss the amazing photo of a Reef Manta Ray on our homepage a few weeks ago. Dr. Simon Pierce—marine biologist and photographer—took this picture, along with many others, whilst doing his own research. We were very interested in...
Recent Comments