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Some rules of swarming.

Working too much in not good for mental health, it's proven !

seems to be a big resource for learning documents

of interest to us? Tobias? Kevin?

Bullshit!!!

be happy and infect your neighbors with it :-) ....

Something for our new Earth Systems Science position to look at

Should we organise a workshop PDC like on this? Or a call for ideas?

Hello? Tobias, Dario, Luis: Should we take a look?

They are philosophers, and they don't quote your study... might be interesting nevertheless...

As the researchers desribe, the aquifer found is defined as a basin filled with aged snow (firn) that was saturated with water trapped within its porous structure. More ice cores to study! But in that case the time sequence along the length of the cores - to be extracted- would not be monotonic, as was the case in the dry cores we analysed. That's because there is constant input of surface water percolating through the ice-sheet to reach the depth of the aquifer, and since it flows downward its temperature could affect its partial pressure => its vertical position along the core

Regarding our discussion on resource self-sufficiency of a Mars colony. Would it ever be possible (from a resource perspective that is..) A NASA report on availability of resources. A self-sufficiency trade study described in Boston (1996) identifies the mission duration at which the development of local life support resources becomes advantageous. Within 30 days, without recycling, or with the equivalent leakage, it becomes advantageous to derive oxygen from local resources. The time constants for water and food are about 6 months and 3 years, respectively.

I guess it depends on the number of astronauts that have to be supporte ... 3 years for food looks like a lot

Other possible study: get a textbook example of an image of a pen, evolve it just enough so NN can't recognize it anymore, while minimizing the distance between the original and evolved images. EDIT: Its been done already: http://cs.nyu.edu/~zaremba/docs/understanding.pdf

Of course, you can't really use them to extrapolate. The unknown unknown is always the trickiest :P They should just make another class "random bullshit", really and dump all of this stuff in there. I think there's a potential paper right there

Our friends from NASA have come out with a plan to the human exploration of Venus in the time that everyone is speaking about Mars.

Love the concept acronym, which pretty much says it all... Not sure which astronaut would fancy floating around in an atmosphere where clouds are made of sulphuric acid. Besides I don't see the point of a manned mission if one can't reach the surface.. tele-operation would be easy and so much cheaper.

I still think, the lizards have evolved at an unexpectedly high rate and have now taken over the satellite...

Scientists have used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio-telescope system and NASA's Cassini spacecraft to measure the position of Saturn and its family of moons to within about a mile -- at a range of nearly a billion miles.

Scientists have discovered how algae that survive in very low levels of light are able to switch on and off a weird quantum phenomenon that occurs during photosynthesis. The function in the algae of this quantum effect, known as coherence, remains a mystery, but it is thought it could help them harvest energy from the sun much more efficiently. Working out its role in a living organism could lead to advances such as better organic solar cells.

very very nice! we tried already a few years back to find an angle to see how we could study quantum phenomena occuring in plants and photosynthsis is one of the great examples since somehow plants manage to make the phenomena work for them at elevated temperatures, a feat in itself ... any good idea most welcome!!!

Anna maybe? Joe?

True! Half the Phd Positions offered are in studying eddy variability. It links to resolving the - yet another holy grail - problem of turbulence.

Bio-inspired assembly of fluorescent molecules boosts the fluorescence output.

Nice read! It is actually part of the Ariadna PETE study of one of the teams. You can supervise if you want :)

"Neuroscience UCLA neurophysicists have found that space-mapping neurons in the brain react differently to virtual reality than they do to real-world environments. Their findings could be significant for people who use virtual reality for gaming, military, commercial, scientific or other purposes." I wonder if we are doing it wrong with the airplane pilot simulators...

Nine out of 10 workers perform better when listening to music, according to a new study that found 88pc of participants produced their most accurate test results and 81pc completed their fastest work when music was playing.

There's this website: https://www.focusatwill.com/ , which I used for some time. At some point I even subscribed for the paid version (more tracks, control over "intensity" of music). Unfortunately I realized I work the best in complete silence, which is tricky to get - occasionally I put on the white noise http://simplynoise.com/ which works quite well for me.