ETH Zurich – Kettinki

2020-05-23 @ 14.08.53 ∈ In English

Bumblebees’ ‘clever trick’ fools plants into flower

Researchers found that when deprived of pollen, bumblebees will nibble on the leaves of flowerless plants. The damage done seems to fool the plant into flowering, sometimes up to 30 days earlier than normal.

2019-07-13 @ 14.53.11 ∈ Suomeksi

Scientists Use Camera with Human-Like Vision to Capture 5,400 fps Video

Regular cameras work by capturing discrete frames, recapturing the same scene 24 or more times per second and then stitching it together to create a video. Event cameras are different. They capture “pixel-level brightness changes” as they happen, basically recording each individual light “event” as it happens, without wasting time capturing all the stuff that remains the same frame by frame.