sabato 27 febbraio 2021

# life: even when you play classic (e.g. Montezuma's Revenge), bots win.

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<< A team of researchers (..) has developed a set of learning algorithms that proved to be better at playing classic video games than ...
giovedì 25 febbraio 2021

# life: apropos of tricks, 'torpor', a survival strategy not as rare as previously thought

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<< Life is hard for small animals in the wild, but they have many solutions to the challenges of their environment. One of the most fa...
mercoledì 24 febbraio 2021

# gst: apropos of 'transitions', slow dynamics of complex connected networks can control the rate of demixing

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<< A space- spanning network structure is a basic morphology in phase separation of soft and biomatter, alongside a droplet one. Despi...
martedì 23 febbraio 2021

# gst: a slow motion can triggers strong, fast-slip (many miles away)

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<< At a glacier near the South Pole, earth scientists have found evidence of a quiet, slow-motion fault slip that triggers strong, fas...
venerdì 19 febbraio 2021

# life: to eat each other's wings within mating pairs (among wood-feeding cockroaches Salganea taiwanensis)

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  << The behavior of eating their mates or a part of their mate's body has been studied in sexual cannibalism or nuptial feeding. ...
martedì 9 febbraio 2021

# zoo; apropos of extreme dwarf entities, the nano-chameleon (Brookesia nana)

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<< An international team, (..) has discovered a minuscule new species of chameleon.  (..) They have named the new species Brookesia na...
lunedì 8 febbraio 2021

# gst; apropos of hair that can be combed, some perturbation fields, along the event horizon of extreme black holes, seem to evolve in time indefinitely

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 <<  black holes can be fully characterized by only three physical quantities: their mass, spin and charge. Since they have no additio...