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NASA Seeks Four Volunteers To Spend A Year In An Isolated Mars Colony Simulator

Ready to embark on a cosmic adventure? The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is seeking volunteers for a special mission to the Red Planet. That’s right, you can now potentially go live on Mars, or at least, a very close version of it.Last Friday (February 16), NASA announced that it was seeking applicants to participate in its next simulated one-year Mars surface mission to help gather information that will be useful for planning actual human missions to the real Mars in the future.This is the second…

Alexei Navalny, imprisoned Putin critic, dies in a Russian penal colony

MOSCOW — Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who survived a near-fatal poisoning blamed on the Kremlin and endured harsh prison conditions even while wielding black humor and social-media savvy to battle President Vladimir Putin’s autocratic rule, died in prison Friday, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47. Even as he earned international accolades for scathing denunciations of Putin from behind bars over the catastrophic war in Ukraine and his fight for what he called a “beautiful” Russia free of dictatorial…

Ant Colony Optimization — Intuition, Code & Visualization

Where it stands out from other swarm algorithmsContinue reading on Towards Data Science » Where it stands out from other swarm algorithmsContinue reading on Towards Data Science » FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and…

Alexei Navalny Found in Remote Russian Penal Colony

Alexei Navalny, the anti-Putin activist and Russian opposition leader who mysteriously disappeared from prison earlier this month, has been found in a remote penal colony in the Arctic, a spokesperson has said. Kira Yarmysh, an aide for Navalny, wrote on X on Monday that the activist had been found after nearly three weeks of his whereabouts being unknown. “He is now in IK-3 in the settlement of Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District,” she wrote, referring to an area in northwestern Siberia that is a…

Rare Ant Colony Found in North Carolina

In a significant discovery, Michelle Kirchner from North Carolina State University documented an entire colony of the rare Aphaenogaster mariae Forel ants in North Carolina’s Triangle region. This rare species, typically found in tree canopies, was previously little understood, with no records of the male ants. Credit: Matt Bertone Michelle Kirchner’s discovery of a rare ant colony in North Carolina sheds light on a species previously little understood, prompting further ecological research. There’s a species of ant that…

Automation colony sim Time to Morp releases on February 22

Yogcast Games has announced that Team HalfBeard’s colony sim, Time to Morp, will be released on February 22, 2024. Everything in 2024 still feels like it’s so far in the future, even though we’re talking about a couple of months. I’m realizing right now that I don’t know what a “colony sim” is. The Steam tag points me to everything from Frostpunk to Cult of the Lamb, which, to me, are two entirely different things. It seems to lump in survival city builders with base builders. Is Roller Coast Tycoon a colony sim?…

Counting Africa’s Largest Bat Colony

Every evening, bats fly from Kasanka National Park to feed in the surrounding countryside. Credit: Christian Ziegler / Max Planck Institute of Animal BehaviorThe most accurate estimate yet has been provided by artificial intelligence and computer vision.Each year, a small forest in Zambia transforms into the site of one of the planet’s most astounding natural events. In November, the straw-colored fruit bats undertake a migration from various parts of Africa to a specific cluster of trees in Kasanka National Park. The…

Full release of space colony builder Quriocity lands July 25th – Destructoid

My battle against autocorrect begins Oxeliz has announced that their space colony builder, Quriocity, will be leaving Early Access on July 25. This completes its growth into a full version that began back in October, 2022. Quriocity places you in the role of a leader of a space colony. Humans have developed faster-than-light travel, and it’s time to put roots down on new planets. More than just advancing and building up your space empire, you need to ensure that your colonists are comfortable this far out from…