C-Lab

Within the small glass vessel, approximately eight billion microorganisms, comparable to the human population of Earth, swim, rotate, and synchronise their movement in response to a changing magnetic field. These are 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘮 𝘨𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦, magnetotactic bacteria whose bodies contain chains of iron crystals that physically align them with magnetic forces. As they reorient together, the way they scatter light shifts, producing a visible shimmering across the liquid. This is 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘯 - not mechanical, chemical, or digital, but entirely alive.

Link: https://www.c-lab.co.uk/projects/The_Phenomenon

Die einsamste Pflanze der Welt: E. woodii sucht eine Partnerin Der Palmfarn Encephalartos woodii gilt als die einsamste Pflanze der Welt. Nach einer Partnerin sucht man bisher vergeblich.

Wie ein Palmfarn mit Drohnen und KI vor dem Aussterben gerettet werden soll Ein einsamer männlicher Palmfarn ist das letzte bekannte Exemplar seiner Art. In einem Wettlauf gegen die Zeit soll mithilfe von Drohnen und KI seine verschollene Partnerin gefunden werden

Tracing Life From Above - ACM SIGGRAPH Blog Art Gallery installation "AI in the Sky" blends art, science, and AI to explore the search for the extinct cycad Encephalartos woodii and how machines perceive nature.

AI in the Sky At the heart of this project is a plant so rare that it stands on the brink of extinction. This plant, the Encephalartos woodii (E. woodii), a cycad classified as ‘extinct in the wild,’ is known from a single pollen-producing specimen found in South Africa’s oNgoye Forest in the late 19th cent...