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jmlloren

EU-funded researchers discover new immune cell - 0 views

cordis.europa.eu/...index.cfm

BIO

shared by jmlloren on 21 Nov 09 - Cached
  • jmlloren on 21 Nov 09
     
    The cells that attacking my feet has been finally identified!
pacome delva

Americans' Eating Habits More Wasteful Than Ever - 0 views

sciencenow.sciencemag.org/...1

bio food

shared by pacome delva on 26 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Nearly 40% of the food supply in the United States goes to waste, according to a new study, and the problem has been getting worse.
Nicholas Lan

biomimetic wind turbines - 3 views

physicsworld.com/...40993

BIO NRG technology biomimetics terrestrial renewables

shared by Nicholas Lan on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Nicholas Lan on 25 Nov 09
     
    schools of fish => schools of wind turbines
Nicholas Lan

hydrogen storage using chicken feathers - 1 views

acs.confex.com/...Paper69389.html

BIO technology chemical engineering CNT hydrogen storage NRG science

shared by Nicholas Lan on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
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  • Nicholas Lan on 25 Nov 09
     
    apparently competitive with CNT and others in performance, while as you would expect very cheap. anyone know what happens to chicken feathers in a vacuum?
Joris _

Researchers demonstrate a better way for computers to 'see' (w/ Video) - 1 views

www.physorg.com/news178997486.html

ai bio

shared by Joris _ on 03 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Rather than building a single model and seeing how well it could recognize visual objects, the team constructed thousands of candidate models, and screened for those that performed best on an object recognition task
pacome delva

Ants Take a Cue From Facebook - ScienceNOW - 2 views

news.sciencemag.org/...-take-a-cue-from-facebook.html

bio ant social_network

shared by pacome delva on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • This pattern of interactions matches how humans share information on social networking sites like Facebook, says the study's lead author, biologist Noa Pinter-Wollman. Most Facebook users are connected to a relatively small number of friends. A handful of users, however, have thousands of friends and act as information hubs.
  • computer simulations of the ants' social networks showed that information flows fastest when a small number of individuals act as information hubs. Fast-flowing information allows ant colonies to respond faster to threats such as predators and weather hazards, Pinter-Wollman says.
  • These well-connected ants might have an advantage in responding to threats, but they are also more vulnerable to infectious diseases, which can spread quickly through the colony.
  • pacome delva on 13 Apr 11
     
    for Tobi! nice analogy between the threat and the fast responding in human network
  • Ma Ru on 13 Apr 11
     
    Yet another example of "because scientifically accurate title would sound sooo boring".
Francesco Biscani

[1104.1824] Simulating Spiking Neural P systems without delays using GPUs - 4 views

arxiv.org/1104.1824

BIO

shared by Francesco Biscani on 12 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Francesco Biscani on 12 Apr 11
     
    Might be interesting for Giusy...
Luís F. Simões

Allen Institute for brain science announces first comprehensive gene map of the human b... - 6 views

www.alleninstitute.org/...lease_AllenHumanBrainAtlas.pdf

BIO neuroscience brain AI

shared by Luís F. Simões on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Luís F. Simões on 13 Apr 11
     
    http://www.brain-map.org/ yummy! brains...
Isabelle DB

Les feuilles peuvent produire de l'électricité - 0 views

www.bulletins-electroniques.com/...66248.htm

bio energy

shared by Isabelle DB on 06 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Isabelle DB on 06 Apr 11
     
    Will it solve energy problems on Earth?
pacome delva

Physics - Fruit flies swim through air - 1 views

physics.aps.org/...PhysRevLett.106.178103

bio insect_wings flies

shared by pacome delva on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
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  • A new experiment reported in Physical Review Letters shows that—contrary to popular wisdom—paddling can be as effective in air as it is in water. This could imply that insects evolved their flight capability from some earlier swimming trait.
  • Using high-speed video cameras to track wing motion, the team observed certain cases where the flies paddled their wings forward and backward. To confirm that this was indeed drag-based motion, the team plugged their wing data into an “insect flight simulator” and found that they could reproduce the fly’s overall movement. The authors constructed a simple model of paddling, which seems to support the theory that insect wings evolved in water.
LeopoldS

Fire ants self-assemble into waterproof rafts to survive floods - 5 views

www.pnas.org/...1016658108.abstract

BIO technology science AI swarms

shared by LeopoldS on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
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  • LeopoldS on 27 Apr 11
     
    swarm intelligence very impressive ...
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  • Ma Ru on 27 Apr 11
     
    Have you seen the movies? Awesome!
  • LeopoldS on 27 Apr 11
     
    yep ... fantastic ...
  • pacome delva on 28 Apr 11
     
    impressive, particularly the two last videos where u can see the structure growing !
LeopoldS

How simple rules determine pedestrian behavior and crowd disasters - 2 views

www.pnas.org/...1016507108.full.pdf+html

BIO inf science AI

shared by LeopoldS on 20 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 20 Apr 11
     
    nice paper on crowds .... 
santecarloni

Vision of beauty - physicsworld.com - 6 views

physicsworld.com/...45840

vision bio technology

shared by santecarloni on 06 May 11 - No Cached
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  • santecarloni on 06 May 11
     
    "As sensors in digital cameras fast approach the 127 megapixels of the human eye, clinical trials are under way to implant this technology directly into the retina".
  • LeopoldS on 07 May 11
     
    Wow
santecarloni

Nanoparticles play at being red blood cells - physicsworld.com - 1 views

physicsworld.com/...46344

mimetics bio nan

shared by santecarloni on 01 Jul 11 - No Cached
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  • santecarloni on 01 Jul 11
     
    Nanoparticles disguised as red blood cells could be used to deliver anti-cancer drugs directly to a tumour.
Ma Ru

The human Turing machine: a neural framework for mental programs - 2 views

www.cell.com/...S1364-6613%2811%2900088-X

bio inf science computing AI

shared by Ma Ru on 24 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Ma Ru on 24 Jun 11
     
    From the alternative computing series...
LeopoldS

Asian Journal of Andrology - Second to fourth digit ratio: a predictor of adult penile ... - 1 views

www.nature.com/...aja201175a.html

bio fun

shared by LeopoldS on 04 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 04 Jul 11
     
    enjoy measuring ...
  • LeopoldS on 06 Jul 11
     
    nobody viewing this paper ... strange ...
Joris _

In Eyes, a Clock Calibrated by Wavelengths of Light - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...05light.html

bio science NASA

shared by Joris _ on 05 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Joris _ on 05 Jul 11
     
    Maybe you can use some blue light during the wednesday meeting to keep people awake and alert :p
  • LeopoldS on 06 Jul 11
     
    highly needed indeed ...
Christos Ampatzis

Plants: Adaptive behavior, root-brains, and minimal cognition - 1 views

adb.sagepub.com/...155.abstract

roots AI bio

shared by Christos Ampatzis on 23 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Christos Ampatzis on 23 Jun 11
     
    Hello? Tobias, Dario, Luis: Should we take a look?
  • Ma Ru on 24 Jun 11
     
    They are philosophers, and they don't quote your study... might be interesting nevertheless...
LeopoldS

Cellular and Network Contributions to Vestibular Signal Processing: Impact of Ion Condu... - 3 views

www.jneurosci.org/...8359.abstract

PHY AI bio technology

shared by LeopoldS on 25 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 25 Jun 11
     
    looks like very nice research - can we implement a technique inspired by this on a landing spacecraft?
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