Martian haze, all around. The dust storm now circles the whole planet. The measure of atmospheric opacity, or "tau," is over 8.0 here in Gale Crater—the highest I've ever seen. Still safe. Science continues. go.nasa.gov/2MJh1fB

In a robot swarm, the ability to sequence tasks can emerge from the interaction of reactive individual robots x.com/SciRobotics/st…

Important Working Lunch instructional slide RE introducing yourself

Fixing photosynthesis by engineering it to recycle a toxic mistake arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

Opportunity did not answer NASA’s final call, and it’s now gone to us arstechnica.com/science/2019/0… by Eric Berger

Let's watch that again!

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Measles outbreak spurred by anti-vaxxers shuts down Samoan government arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

Unvaccinated Samoans should identify themselves with red flags, officials say arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

Archaeologists find a way to look for ancient beer arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

Quantum reality is either weirdly different or it collapses arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

We've started! We'll live tweet the online conf. presentations in a thread👍 1st session on Robotics, chaired by Vito Trianni: "Collective Decision Making in Swarm Robotics with Distributed Bayesian Hypothesis Testing" by Q. Shan and @SanazMostaghim link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Last invited keynote of #ANTS2020! "The Collective Intelligence of Army Ants, and the Robots They Inspire" Radhika Nagpal Radhika Nagpal Paraphrase: "In nature, collective intelligence often works so well, that a collective can almost behave as if it were a single organism:"

New TechRep by Christian Leonardo T. Stützle @MarcoDorigo_ULB "Title: Cuckoo search ≡ (μ + λ)-evolution strategy – A rigorous analysis of an algorithm that has been misleading the research community for more than 10 years and nobody seems to have noticed" on iridia.ulb.ac.be/IridiaTrSeries/

Off-line neuro-evolution produces robot swarms whose performance in simulation may not transfer to real word. Here the authors identify overfitting as main cause nature.com/articles/s4146… Ken Antoine Ligot Mauro Birattari IRIDIA, ULB ULB ComRecherche F.R.S.-FNRS European Research Council (ERC) DEMIURGE project, ULB

Insane drug cocktails in India net drug makers millions and pose global threat arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

In wars with termites, ants rescue and care for their wounded arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

Video: Robotic muscle and sensitive polymer fingers arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

Getting some air, Atlas? youtu.be/vjSohj-Iclc via YouTube

Maria Agnesi, the Greatest Female Mathematician You've Never Heard of scientificamerican.com/article/maria-… via Scientific American