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Demonstrates how useful space technology can be.

Apparently not - I just got a brand new sexy Sony Vaio S :-)

I am sorry for you ... :-)

How useful space technology can be for real scientific problems.

the Alaskan bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica baueri) (Figure 1), makes its eight-day, 11,000-km autumn migration from Alaska to New Zealand in one step, with no stopovers to rest or refuel. This roughly doubles the previous maximum direct flight distance in birds, challenging experts to square this remarkable marathon migration with our understanding of aerodynamic theory and endurance physiology.

Something for the computer freaks.

Just some ant suff again.

what strategies!!!

A neoliberal look on AI and swarms

Amoebae Anticipate Periodic Events

Let me guess, you came across this while looking into Memristors? :) If not, here's the connection: Memristor minds: The future of artificial intelligence http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.600-memristor-minds-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence.html ( if you don't have access to the full NewScientist article, there's a mirror here: http://www.mannkal.org/downloads/guests/memristormindsthefutureofartificialintelligence.pdf )

"Ladybug Fail" video is the best :-)

"We fit data to zonal interaction models and characterize which individual interaction forces suffice to explain observed spatial patterns." You can get the paper from the first author's website: http://people.stfx.ca/rlukeman/research.htm

PNAS? Didnt strike me as sth very new though... We should refer to it in the roots study though: "Social organisms form striking aggregation patterns, displaying cohesion, polarization, and collective intelligence. Determining how they do so in nature is challenging; a plethora of simulation studies displaying life-like swarm behavior lack rigorous comparison with actual data because collecting field data of sufficient quality has been a bottleneck." For roots it is NO bottleneck :) Tobias was right :)

Here they assume all relevant variables influencing behaviour are being observed. Namely, the relative positions and orientations of all ducks in the swarm. So, they make movies of the swarm's movements, process them, and them fit the models to that data. In the roots, though we can observe the complete final structure, or even obtain time-lapse movies showing how that structure came out to be, getting the measurements of all relevant soil variables (nitrogen, phosphorus, ...) throughout the soil, and over time, would be extremely difficult. So I guess a replication of the kind of work they did, but for the roots, would be hard. Nice reference though.

Link to the paper that is the subject of this article: Olsson-Francis, Karen and Cockell, Charles (2010). Use of cyanobacteria for in-situ resource use in space applications. Planetary And Space Science, 58(10), 1279-1285.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2010.05.005

It starts to look more and more seriously... and ACT still haven't done anything to save it!

Siesta championship!! At least it's less dangerous than the Finnish sauna championship...

there is no "and the like" ... when talking of Tobias !!! :-)

even being so used to italians that accent is hilarious

how comes that they did not apply to our Ariadna?

maybe we should have a second look at multiple roots as networks

study by university of Florence ... does the quality of the wine have any influence?

Nice to see some applied research from time to time...