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These animal sustain 700g. We should have a look at this

the PH paper Martin was mentioning ...

Very interesting work, showing that apparently algae mastered quantum coherence a few years before us... Inspiring for a new type of light-sensitive devices, and perhaps other applications...

This is the community that states mammals have cognitive maps. Good work, especially by the Moser-couple.

Quantum-stuff in bio-stuff. Finally! Anyone wants to work on biomimetic quantum theory?

I'll start once we have the "Topological Metabiostring".

ooh yeah! do you have some time on sunday...? well this falls i think in the "Can we use it for space?" category... but I would like to read a bit more about it (just had the time to read the sciencenow news few post below...)

The paper looks to be very related to the idea that came out once from Tobias based on the work of Gilles Laurent. Unfortunately I don't have access to this journal, so I can't peep into the article itself.

does not taste good but ....

not yet for space'ships' but nice biomimetic research

and all this without magic metamaterials ...

It's funny to see how people get more and more humble in the desperate attempt to save their stupid ideas... At the beginning was the brave and bold aim to cloak something in free space (in a sphere or a cylinder). This requires inhomogeneous, anisotropic, magnetic materials; hopeless!! So one reduces to one polarization, now we have inhomogenous, anisotropic materials; still hopeless! At this point one downgraded the pretension: instead of cloaking in free space, we make a "carpet cloak" and hide an object behind an invisible dent in a mirror. But if that shall be continuous, we still need inhomogeneity and this is very hard. So now instead of a dent we take a cone and then it is claimed to work ... for ONE polarization. But of course the cloak can't work at all incident angles... irony of fate: everything is now made from birefringent media, the antithesis of what the metamaterials dogma was at the beginning!

Hi Luzi, can you please send me the paper. We are writing a project based on sulfates and carbonates, and all this BS sounds great for the introduction (The authors used Calcite as birefringent material)

new interesting neuroscience article ... how can we learn from this for AI?

> how can we learn from this for AI? After reading the abstract only... it appears a bit too low-level to be relevant...

"In November 2010, the scientific journal Icarus published a paper by astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, who proposed the existence of a binary companion to our sun, larger than Jupiter, in the long-hypothesized "Oort cloud" -- a faraway repository of small icy bodies at the edge of our solar system. The researchers use the name "Tyche" for the hypothetical planet. Their paper argues that evidence for the planet would have been recorded by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)."

something for Camilla and Tobias ...

dark matter :-) ?? could there be loads of them?

A group of proteins that act as the body's built-in line of defense against invading bacteria use a molecular trick to induce bacteria to destroy themselves...

Graphene miracles

Actually since this graphene hype started, being more or less a physics laic, I keep wondering how much of these promised miracles will in fact be delivered? Any chance for an expert's opinion?

Sounds too super to be true, no?

> Sounds too super to be true, no? Yeah, how else may it sound, being a combination of hi-quality (I assume) research targeted at attracting funding, raised to the power of Science Daily's pop-pseudo-scientific journalists' bu****it? Original article starts with a cool sentence too: > The ultimate proof of our understanding of natural or technological systems is reflected in our ability to control them. ...a good starting point for a never-ending philosophers' debate... Now seriously, because of a big name behind the study, I'm very curious to read the original article. Although I expect the conclusion to be that in practical cases (i.e. the cases of "networks" you *would like to* "control"), you need to control all nodes or something equally impractical...

then I am looking forward to reading your conclusions here after you will have actually read the paper

This is my first post to the ACT-Diigo in 18 months! Anyways a semantic wiki which collects calls for papers on all different fields - that should have been an ACT invention. SHAME ON YOU!!!

nice!

Come on guys, it's out there for centuries...

Here, we show that fluorescent proteins4, 5 in cells are a viable gain medium for optical amplification, and report the first successful realization of biological cell lasers based on green fluorescent protein (GFP).

a place to land ...