Advanced Concepts Team

... better food?

I thought insects and bugs would be our (food) future, but maybe it's plants grown via vertical farming...

I doubt that the associated homogenization of food will turn out to be "better" ....

nice idea to bring some structure to the list of IT novelties ...

No matter how much BS is in it (don't have expertise to tell), the reaction of the NYC Diamond Dealers Club president cited at the bottom is just hilarious.

seems a bit weird and highly speculative... but yes this reaction is excellent ! haha. Diamond from outer space would be a bit more expensive than one found by a poor african kid anyway...

"Ants is a multi-player strategy game set on a plot of dirt with water for obstacles and food that randomly drops. Each player has one or more hills where ants will spawn. The objective is for players to seek and destroy the most enemy ant hills while defending their own hills. Players must also gather food to spawn more ants, however, if all of a player's hills are destroyed they can't spawn any more ants."

Scientists have entered a new path for regenerative medicine by altering age-worn cells in people over 90 into rejuvenated stem cells.

well done ... why your name does not appear there?

Again, amazing insects! Scientists have discovered that Polistes fuscatus paper wasps can recognize and remember each other's faces with sharp accuracy, a new study suggests.

How would you like to have the ability to play the piano downloaded into your brain?

you also get one step closer to the moon when climbing a mountain - though you will never reach it this way ...

This is a classic English poem containing about 800 of the worst irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation.

"...scientists in Germany have built a device that can effectively make objects invisible to sound waves. The performance of the acoustic "invisibility cloak" exceeds that of existing electromagnetic devices and could open up new ways of manipulating waves, including the development of shields against seismic waves."

shit.... they are a few months ahead of us it seems ... :-( what is the impact on our ariadna??

HIRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) images show flows lengthen and darken on rocky equator-facing slopes from late spring to early fall. The seasonality, latitude distribution and brightness changes suggest a volatile material is involved, but there is no direct detection of one.

A simple mathematical model of the way cultures spread reproduces some aspects of European history, say complexity scientists

from the abstract: "Using a novel imaging and analysis technique on experimental data we estimated pheromone concentrations at all spatial positions in the experimental arena and at different times. Then we derived the response function of individual ants to pheromone concentrations by looking at correlations between concentrations and changes in speed or direction of the ants." [...] "agent based simulations based on the Weber's Law response function determined experimentally produced results compatible with those reported in the literature and reproduced the formation of trails."

Nice article!

exciting news ... especially now that apparently Obama proposes to cut the mars exploration programme ...

very debatable but surely different and entertaining - Master Class with Michael O'Leary at the Innovation Convention 2011 - Brussels