AI and Computing

18+ hour, 38+ min ago   (423+ words) “What survives when a world ends, and what can still be known about it?” asks UJ Arts & Culture Artist-in-Residence, Henrietta Scholtz, in Planetary Cognitive Ecologies: Gondwana, the research outcome of her residency in association with the UJ Art Gallery. The…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (385+ words) Analyzing the intelligence of plants, fungi, and bacteria. A deep dive into orthogenesis, vitalism, and anthropopathism in modern analytical philosophy....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (34+ words) A path is just a sequence of choices. DFS helps you make those choices one step at a time.” Imagine you’re navigating a maze. 💥 …...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (704+ words) Bioengineer.org Phosphorus is the quiet bottleneck of global agriculture Locked tightly into soils and mined from finite rock reserves, the nutrient constrains yields of staple legumes across the developing world, and lentil—one of humanity’s oldest crops—is…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (556+ words) Panpsychism has often appeared to be a strategy for rescuing materialism: We have minds, but so what? So do electrons! What about it? While Calvo now runs the Minimal Intelligence Lab at the University of Murcia in Spain, he started…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (80+ words) Every night, across farmlands in China and much of the world, light traps lure nocturnal insect pests toward glowing panels, where they are photographed, counted, and in many designs, eliminated by infrared heat. These intelligent pest-monitoring stations promise a revolution…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (276+ words) In China alone, manual pollination eats up over 25% of fresh-market tomato breeding costs. In particular, emasculation—where male parts are removed to disable self-pollination—consumes 40% of that labor. Soybeans' tightly sealed flowers block natural cross-pollination, forcing such labor-intensive manual breeding…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (281+ words) Water typically moves from the land to the atmosphere through soil evaporation and plant transpiration. This process is called evapotranspiration. It plays a major role in events such as drought and heat waves. However, many existing computer models struggle to…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (531+ words) Why did the mushroom always get invited to the party? Because he was “fungi”! Jokes aside, there’s more to fungi than meets the eye and you can learn all about them at the Funtastical World of Fungi exhibition at the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (310+ words) After eight years of field work, Czech botanists are completing a unique photographic atlas covering some 3,300 plants found in Czechia. An atlas on an unprecedented scale Work on the project began in 2018. The finished atlas is expected to include around…...