A European research initiative - Project Horizon - has been launched to tackle the problems posed by seafarer fatigue. It was inaugurated with a meeting at Warsash, UK.
When honeybee, Apis mellifera, swarms lift off to fly to their new nest site, only a small proportion of individuals know the location of the new site, yet these few individuals must guide the entire swarm to the correct place. How do scouts transfer directional information to their swarm-mates? The vision hypothesis proposes that scout bees fly rapidly through swarms ‘pointing’ in the direction of travel.
The European Regions Airline Association - representing 62
intra-European airlines - reports a decline in passenger demand of 10.7% for the period January – March 2009 compared with the same period
in 2008.
GPS analysis of flight trajectories of pigeons can reveal that topographic features influence their flight paths. Recording electrical brain activity that reflects attentional processing could indicate objects of interest that do not cause changes in the flight path. Therefore, we investigated whether crossing particular visual landmarks when homing from a familiar release site is associated with changes in EEG.
The ability to use the geometric shape of an environment as an orienting cue for goal location has been shown in many vertebrate groups. Experimentally, however, geometric spatial tasks are typically carried out on horizontal surfaces. The present study explored how learning a geometry task is affected by training on a surface extending in the vertical dimension—a slope. In a reference memory task, pigeons (Columba livia) were trained to locate a goal in an isosceles trapezoid arena
During the morning of 30 June, a Yemenia Airways Airbus A310 crashed
into the Indian Ocean off the Comoros Islands. All 153 on board are
reported to have died, although it is reported that a child has survived.
Reorientation tasks, in which disoriented participants attempt to relocate objects using different visual cues, have previously been understood to depend on representing aspects of the global organisation of the space, for example its major axis for judgements based on geometry
A Special Report on Galileo Development and Validation by the European
Court of Auditors concludes that the Commission did not provide
adequate leadership
At 1145 BST on 2 July, a RAF Tornado F3 crashed during a routine
training flight at Glen Kinglas in Argyll, Scotland. The 2 crew were
killed.
The most complete terrain map of the Earth's surface has been published.
A European research initiative - Project Horizon - has been launched to tackle the problems posed by seafarer fatigue. It was inaugurated with a meeting at Warsash, UK.
When honeybee, Apis mellifera, swarms lift off to fly to their new nest site, only a small proportion of individuals know the location of the new site, yet these few individuals must guide the entire swarm to the correct place. How do scouts transfer directional information to their swarm-mates? The vision hypothesis proposes that scout bees fly rapidly through swarms ‘pointing’ in the direction of travel.
The European Regions Airline Association - representing 62
intra-European airlines - reports a decline in passenger demand of 10.7% for the period January – March 2009 compared with the same period
in 2008.
GPS analysis of flight trajectories of pigeons can reveal that topographic features influence their flight paths. Recording electrical brain activity that reflects attentional processing could indicate objects of interest that do not cause changes in the flight path. Therefore, we investigated whether crossing particular visual landmarks when homing from a familiar release site is associated with changes in EEG. 
The ability to use the geometric shape of an environment as an orienting cue for goal location has been shown in many vertebrate groups. Experimentally, however, geometric spatial tasks are typically carried out on horizontal surfaces. The present study explored how learning a geometry task is affected by training on a surface extending in the vertical dimension—a slope. In a reference memory task, pigeons (Columba livia) were trained to locate a goal in an isosceles trapezoid arena
During the morning of 30 June, a Yemenia Airways Airbus A310 crashed
into the Indian Ocean off the Comoros Islands. All 153 on board are
reported to have died, although it is reported that a child has survived.
Reorientation tasks, in which disoriented participants attempt to relocate objects using different visual cues, have previously been understood to depend on representing aspects of the global organisation of the space, for example its major axis for judgements based on geometry
A Special Report on Galileo Development and Validation by the European
Court of Auditors concludes that the Commission did not provide
adequate leadership
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