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For Bees, Solving Tricky Math Problems Is All in a Day’s Work
Discover, October 28 2010.
Having a bee brain might not be so bad after all, since new research shows that bees are faster than supercomputers when it came to solving one of those dreadful “word problems” from (probably very advanced) high school math class. Co-author Mathieu Lihoreau explained.. →
Photos: Insects Trapped in Amber Offer a Glimpse of Prehistoric Bug Life
Discover, October 25 2010.
A huge bounty of amber unearthed in India is giving researchers a peak at the wildlife that inhabited the area 50 million years ago, via the insects that are trapped inside it. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,.. →
To Animate a Drunken Mess, Use New Algorithms for Wrinkled Clothing and Flushed Faces
Discover, October 25 2010.
The virtual world is getting more realistic. New animation advancements in true-to-reality rumpling of clothes and face reddening are pushing us closer to the event horizon of the Uncanny Valley. The first advancement is an algorithm designed to give animated clothes.. →
Google Street View’s Privacy Blunder Just Keeps Getting Worse
Discover, October 25 2010.
Those Street View cameras aren’t just collecting pictures of streets and buildings to make Google Maps better, they’re also scooping up email addresses and passwords, Google admitted Friday. Back in May the company announced that its Street View cars.. →
The Guggenheim/YouTube Art Experiment: See Winning Videos Here
Discover, October 22 2010.
In June, the Guggenheim Museum announced a collaborative video contest with none other than YouTube. Yes, you read that right: YouTube, the video website overrun with videos of cats and each tween’s latest shopping spree. The contest was open to anyone.. →
Spaceport America Dedicates Its Runway; Flights *Could* Begin in 2011
Discover, October 22 2010.
Just two weeks after the first solo flight of Virgin Galactic’s space tourist ship, the company’s bigwigs gathered again to celebrate the completion of the two-mile, 200-foot wide runway of the world’s first commercial spaceport.
Spaceport.. →
Running by the Books: Math for the Marathoner
Discover, October 22 2010.
About two-fifths of marathon runners “hit the wall” on the big day. That means they completely deplete their body’s stash of readily available energy, which makes them feel wiped out and severely limits their running pace; it sometimes forces people.. →
“Life Ascending” Wins the Royal Society’s Science Book Prize
Discover, October 22 2010.
Nick Lane’s book Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution has just won the Royal Society’s science book prize. The book chronicles the history of life on Earth through ten of evolution’s greatest achievements, from the origins of.. →
Robot, Build Thyself: Machine Made of Lego Builds Models Made of Lego
Discover, October 21 2010.
3D printers are beloved by geeks the world over. Enter the Lego 3D printer: it’s not only MADE of Legos, but it also PRINTS with Legos. With only a few tweaks, this LegoBot could even take over the world print copies of itself, maker Will Gorman told Wired:
“There.. →
Coming Soon to the Internets: Digitized Dead Sea Scrolls
Discover, October 21 2010.
In a great convergence of old and new, Google and the Israel Antiquities Authority are teaming up to digitize the millennia-old Dead Sea Scrolls. The scrolls are the oldest known surviving biblical texts, created between 150 BC and 79 AD. They are written in Hebrew,.. →