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At the Department of Collective Behaviour, part of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, researchers are putting locusts into simulated worlds, both virtual and physical, in the hope that they can figure out how devastating swarms form and move. ■ About the Centre: https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-behaviour/ https://www.ab.mpg.de/couzin Edited by Michelle Martin […]
Agroscope is a Swiss government-backed agricultural research lab. It’s got a lot of other resarch projects too, but it also keeps a backup of the Swiss cheese bacterial cultures… just in käse. ■ Agroscope: https://www.agroscope.admin.ch/agroscope/en/home.html Camera: Tobias Buchmann Editor: Michelle Martin https://www.youtube.com/@OnTheCrux Local production by Viven https://viven.ch Thanks to Rafael […]
At CEA-Leti, in Grenoble, there’s a “funicular” that not many people get to ride: because it’s between two clean rooms, and getting to it requires quite a lot of preparation. ■ CEA-Leti: https://www.leti-cea.com/cea-tech/leti/english/Pages/Welcome.aspx For most of my research on this, I’m indebted to this French-language article from by Julien Meyrat: […]
I went inside the former hotel where, for science (and money), people are volunteering to get colds, flu, and RSV. ■ Challenge trials looking for volunteers: https://flucamp.com/ and https://www.1daysooner.org/recruiting-challenge-studies This isn’t an advert! the subject was suggested by the team at 1DaySooner, but that’s it: no money changed hands and […]
At the University of California San Diego, there’s the Shake Table: an earthquake simulator with the heaviest payload capacity in the world. ■ More about the table: https://nheri.ucsd.edu/ and the building: http://nheritallwood.mines.edu/ With thanks to everyone at UCSD, including Shiling Pei and Ioana Patringenaru Camera: Mark Liu and David Baillot […]
The first few moments of an explosion can’t be simulated yet. But there’s a team at the University of Sheffield working on it. ■ A paper about their work, including data from a similar test: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/2/964 ■ More from them: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/civil/ Previously: why Hollywood explosions don’t look like real explosions: […]
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The asterisk is important. ■ AD: 👨💻 NordVPN’s best deal is here: https://nordvpn.com/tomscott – with a 30-day money-back guarantee. ■ More on the ELT: @ESOobservatory https://eso.org The Extremely Large Telescope, in Paranal, Chile, is probably going to be the largest optical telescope that will ever be constructed. I was invited […]
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