Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices

This is probably the cutest experimental setting I read about the last few months (I do know that I have a particular understanding of what cute is).Robots, disguised as cockroaches by simple pheromone coating, to make them look like cockroaches, that is at the chemotactility space. Then introduced in a group, to influence dynamically the [...]

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peut-on tout dire sur le Net?

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La question n’est pas nouvelle, mais au fur et à mesure que des nouveaux groupes d’utilisateurs s’approchent du Net et souvent à travers les blogs, elle est posée à nouveau. La première fois que je l’ai entendue elle était liée à [...]

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Intelligent Design

Greg Laden, the ISB offers a list of resources for people that would like to learn about Intelligent Design. Great idea and as he propose a free use for any blogger, here is a copy/paste of it.
Dear visitor, if you have time to spend to learn about Intelligent Design, please, clic, clic, clic…

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Speciation without borders

News – Speciation without borders: “Whereas most birds are sole proprietors of their nests, some tropical species “time share” together – a discovery that helps clear up a 150-year-old evolutionary mystery, says Biology professor Vicki Friesen.”
The Queen’s-led international study confirms one of Charles Darwin’s more controversial theories – first put forward in 1859 and since [...]

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losing face

During a cosmetic surgery attempt to transform Creationism Science to Intelligent Design they lost face with the Dover trial.
The narration of the story hurts!

They are still whining

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iGEM

Synthetic biology provides the possibility to extend our defense against disease by employing our intelligence. In the spirit of synthetic biology we can combine different functional parts with known properties to assemble new cellular functions which do not yet exist in nature.
And the winner of the iGEM Competition is … the Slovenian team:
Abstract for nonspecialists
HIV-1 [...]

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