The University of Edinburgh is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the town council under the authority of a royal charter from King James VI in 1582 and officially opened in 1583, it is one of Scotland’s four ancient universities and the sixth-oldest university in continuous operation in the English-speaking world.
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Researchers ran a method built to find words in baby talk on recordings of Bengalese finch song and found the same statistical signature that already turned up in human language and humpback whale calls, present from a bird’s very first cracked notes.
Physicists in Edinburgh borrowed optimal control theory, the maths of fuel-efficient trajectories, to sculpt magnetic pulses that flip a bit in a few trillionths of a second while spending, in simulation, up to a hundredth of the usual energy.