biology

  • In a recent story in London’s newspaper “The Metro”, and also on New Scientist, a number of somewhat odd, and slightly painful experiments were conducted using Saharan desert ants to see if they used odometry - step counting or distance travelled measurement - to navigate.more...
  • » Genetic
    Genetics is a term applied to the system of evolution where changes in the data(mutations), can be selected for pure survivability over others. These leads to Darwinian Evolution.more...
  • It seems that the growth of AI spam filters using learning techniques may lead us to finding a vaccine for AIDS. One problem with aids is that it changes very regularly, and finding common qualities between strains of the virus can be fairly elusive. These kind of things are exactly what spam filters are designed to do.more...