Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale
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by nebben64
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2 days late to this post so not sure anyone's here, but what fascinates me is finding out how the different segments (or other such insects) are connected. Like, at each of those junctions it seems like a bottle-neck scenario where everything has to be condensed into some "wire" form to then connect to the next segment.
by khalic
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They’re all muscle inside, fascinating
by socalgal2
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Looking forward to a three.js visualization
by petesergeant
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Interestingly, despite the lack of an identifiable brain, these creatures _still_ manage to be more intelligent than my dog
by FarmerPotato
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E.O. Wilson would be thrilled.
by chrismcb
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Them? I think we've seen this movie
by theskullfaceace
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Next-level futuristic-sounding title
by smeej
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I can't be the only one who imagined ants whizzing around the Large Hadron Collider wondering what the heck was happening to them.
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by penguin_booze
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Under surveillance capitalism, this is the future that awaits humans, too.
by davidw
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"Ok, but what if we could get the biggest possible magnifying glass to use on the ants?"
by xipho
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When AI is done consuming (and it basically has, except for redundant human-human social network interactions), then will there be a renaissance of re-exploring the natural world? Without understanding its complexities I would posit we're doomed to short and ugly end. Perhaps AI is just what we need to start to re-appreciate it "at scale".
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