Advanced Concepts Team

Material point method is an efficient and promising method for simulating complex stuff. Not used much in Astro, a lot in gaming, cartoons etc.... Worth having a look in comparison with SPH in simulation (for example those connected to the HERAS mission)

The generated inputs are quite strange, I wonder where else something like this occurs.

Interesting long read on the future of deep-sea mining

Nice paper and linked to so many other factors.... curious "The question of whether mean body temperature is changing over time is not merely a matter of idle curiosity. Human body temperature is a crude surrogate for basal metabolic rate which, in turn, has been linked to both longevity (higher metabolic rate, shorter life span) and body size (lower metabolism, greater body mass). We speculated that the differences observed in temperature between the 19th century and today are real and that the change over time provides important physiologic clues to alterations in human health and longevity since the Industrial Revolution."

More info on dark matter ...

:) always thought so!

The direct link without the Washington post paywall https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329131866_Going_With_Your_Gut_The_Inaccuracy_of_Forecast_Revisions_in_a_Football_Score_Prediction_Game

Actually read the paper now and think that this is very doubtful that this could be generalised. They used predictions for football games by those betting on outcomes ...

Using AI to design and build a micro organism to perform a task. Full publication can be found here: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2020/01/07/1910837117.full.pdf

Short movie, but very calming to watch. 4/5

+1 for team photon!

Mindblowing ahah

One of the best use cases for MS Excel so far.

Is this for real ?

Very interesting, indeed! I wonder if it even can be beefed up. The devices produce a sustained voltage of around 0.5 volts across a 7-micrometre-thick film, with a current density of around 17 microamperes per square centimetre

You were a bit faster than me! On top is the corresponding paper.

Sounds juicy...

This is the current page for ESA datalabs. Its an ongoing activity that we should monitor and join with Kelvins update if possible.

I like the "computational narrative" term!

This is a social sciences paper trying to make use of ML. Quote from text: "Social scientists studying the life course must find a way to reconcile a widespread belief that understanding has been generated by these data-as demonstrated by more than 750 published journal articles using the Fragile Families data (10)-with the fact that the very same data could not yield accurate predictions of these important outcomes." "(...) In other words, the submissions were much better at predicting each other than at predicting the truth."

an important message to learn from

spotGEO competition ... spread the news!

Of interest for debris monitoring and SSA? It has been suggested in the kelvins discussions.....

this is something that I think would really make sense to look closer into, also checking what ESA might have already done on it

Thats a bit of a stretch .. uing parkng occupancy and internet requests to conclude the virus could have been active before the current belief!