Their winter survival trick is a months-long power-save mode--and scientists think it could help humans, too. This bear woke up like this. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. For many animals that live in cold climates, winter means low-power mode. But no creature is more tied to the image of a long, cozy winter than hibernating bears all snuggled up in their dens.

Like a true Midwesterner, my dad has been feuding with the squirrels in his backyard for years. Every few months, he comes home with a new "squirrel-proof" bird feeder, each more expensive than the previous, each one promising to finally do the trick. My mom rolls her eyes at the pile of hardware-store receipts and discarded feeders. I shake my head watching this all play out--knowing full well those feeders never stood a chance. Walk down the birdseed aisle in any hardware store and you'll find an entire product category promising "squirrel-proof" solutions.

US bomber crews even carried photos of Tommy Tucker on missions. Tommy Tucker did radio spots, had a fan club, and even posed for LIFE magazine. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II, a little girl was walking to school in northwest Washington, D.C. when she found a baby squirrel that had apparently fallen out of a hickory tree. She took the tiny rodent home, fed him warm milk, and made him a cozy bed in a red woolen hat.

A.2 provides the definitions of six predicates used A.3 provides implementation details of our models. Logic expression is the actual predicate logic constraints that we use in the model. T ask 1: Story Generation Input expression: Order(hated, stupid) & Order(stupid, insulting) & Order (insulting, punched) Logic expression: Order(hated, stupid) Order(stupid, insulting) Order (insulting, punched) T5: I had a crush on a man. I told him I was stupid. He hated me for insulting me.

Every fall, squirrels hide hundreds of acorns--and use smell, memory, and even theft to get them back. Every fall, squirrels stash hundreds of nuts to survive the colder winter months. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. As someone who routinely "hides" things from myself--car keys, receipts, even my phone while I'm actively talking on it--I felt instantly validated by Sarah Silverman's joke that squirrels forget where they bury 80% of their nuts. "And that's how trees are planted!"

Environment Animals Wildlife'Attack squirrel' sends two people to the ER A friendly reminder to not feed wildlife. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The residents of San Rafael, California, have been traumatized by some vicious wildlife . While cougars, coyotes, or great white sharks would be viable guesses for the culprit, this time it was a less formidable predator. The aggressor is a squirrel .

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. A'very mean squirrel' is going nuts in this California town. Experts say it's rare for squirrels to attack people, and the most likely reason has to do with humans hand feeding or hand raising the animals. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here .

Whether your giftee loves bird watching, bird feeding, or just putting a bird on it, these gifts are sure to be a hit. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. You may be familiar with the various memes detailing the fact that once you reach middle age, you're automatically sorted, Harry Potter hat-style, into one of a handful of hobbies, such as sourdough bread making, gardening, or bird watching. I can't contradict this, since I'm a middle-aged person who got sorted into bird-watching.

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable multi-step reasoning capabilities across various domains. However, LLMs still face distinct challenges in complex logical reasoning, as (1) proof-finding requires systematic exploration and the maintenance of logical coherence and (2) searching the right combination of premises at each reasoning step is inherently challenging in tasks with large premise space. To address this, we propose LogicTree, an inference-time modular framework employing algorithm-guided search to automate structured proof exploration and ensure logical coherence. Advancing beyond tree-of-thought (ToT), we incorporate caching mechanism into LogicTree to enable effective utilization of historical knowledge, preventing reasoning stagnation and minimizing redundancy. Furthermore, we address the combinatorial complexity of premise search by decomposing it into a linear process. The refined premise selection restricts subsequent inference to at most one derivation per step, enhancing reasoning granularity and enforcing strict step-by-step reasoning. Additionally, we introduce two LLM-free heuristics for premise prioritization, enabling strategic proof search. Experimental results on five datasets demonstrate that LogicTree optimally scales inference-time computation to achieve higher proof accuracy, surpassing chain-of-thought (CoT) and ToT with average gains of 23.6% and 12.5%, respectively, on GPT-4o. Moreover, within LogicTree, GPT-4o outperforms o3-mini by 7.6% on average.

A rare albino deer was spotted enjoying a midnight snack from a bird feeder in a suburb of St Louis, Missouri. Albinism is observed in one in 30,000 deer, with albino deer referred to as "ghost deer," according to the Missouri Dept. of Conservation. As photos of so-called "Frankenstein" rabbits and squirrels with strange growths on their heads and bodies have started to pop up on social media, users are now sharing pictures taken of deer with bulbous warts. While the warts, or "fibromas" as they're called, may look scary, they generally don't affect the deer's health unless the growths are around the eyes and mouth, hindering their ability to see and eat and making it harder to move, according to experts. Deer fibromas are caused by an infection and are common in the U.S., the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says on its website, adding that similar diseases affect squirrels and rabbits.