Understanding Collective Behavior
of collective behavior and to the study of robotics."If you understand biology better, then you can build better robots. And better robots would help us to better understand biological systems," said researcher Liang Li.Other researchers at the university have considered the role of social networks in how groups respond to their environment. Again studying fish, they found that groups startled more frequently and many more fish participated in startle events when the fish perceived greater risk in the environment. However, the increased startle rates were not because individual fish were
Study Sheds New Light on Ancient Shipwreck off Cyprus
and study co-author Brita Lorentzen.The discovery of a deepwater shipwreck off the coast of Israel, dating to roughly 1300 BC, was announced just last week."Ships were a critical source of transportation in the ancient world, which allowed people to move from one place to another, create social networks, and exchange trade goods and ideas. A shipwreck's contents can tell us specifically which items were being traded or exchanged, where and how people were moving around by sea, which groups of people were in contact with one another, and how they were impacted by these early social and economic
Scientists Turn to Big Data in Hunt for Minerals, Oil and Gas
; "Minerals occur on Earth in clusters," said Robert Hazen, executive director of the Deep Carbon Observatory at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington and an author of the study. "When you see minerals together it's very like the way that humans interact in social networks such as Facebook," he said. Hazen said the technique was also like Amazon, which recommends books based on a client's previous orders, or by media streaming company Netflix, which proposes movies based on a customer's past viewing habits. "They are using vast amounts
Scientists Reveal Sharks’ Surprising Social Networks
Although historically seen as solitary animals, new research shows sharks may have a more complex social structure than previously thought. Using tracking devices to trace the movements of individual animals in the open ocean, researchers found that Sand Tiger sharks form complex social networks that are typically seen in mammals but rarely observed in fish. “Higher-order decision-making processes are often associated with mammals, or species that we think of as really smart – dolphins, elephants, or chimpanzees,” said Danielle Haulsee, a PhD candidate in oceanography at the
IMB: Guard Against Threat of Cyber Attacks
investigations however reveal that the ‘thieves’ were actually installing spyware within the operator’s IT network.”. Yarwood said that more commonly targets are individuals’ personal devices where cyber security is less adequate. Hackers often make use of social networks to target truck drivers and operational personnel who travel extensively to ascertain routing and overnight parking patterns. The criminals were looking to extract information such as release codes for containers from terminal facilities or passwords to discover delivery instructions. &ldquo
December 2025
