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The research team measured the amount of ethanol, or pure alcohol, in fruits such as figs and plums eaten in large quantities by wild chimps in Côte d'Ivoire and Uganda.

As increased quantities of sugar and salt crept into diets in the rest of the world, Japan went in the other direction - with public health messaging successfully convincing people to reduce their salt consumption.

"We are seeing entire snowfields melting within a day or two when rains fall on them and the huge quantity of water gushes down as floods," said Jakob Steiner, a geoscientist with University of Graz.

Such quantities can change over the course of a contract, which leads to changes in cost, it said.

Training involves feeding enormous quantities of data — including social media posts, photos, music, computer code, video and more — to train AI bots to discern patterns of language, images, sound and conversation that they can mimic.