Erratum: Visual features that vary together over time group together over space

Collaboratory: working together over a distance

The Collaboratory software system at FEI Company allows customers to work together with an electron microscope over a distance, and to share the instruments, microscopy expertise and services. It originally has been developed from the results of the Collaboratory.nl project. The Collaborator software system is for customers who want to remote collaborate and operate while using electron microsc...

The team that works together earns together.

Space, Together: An Odyssey

Outer space has been a favourite theme of science fiction literature for a long time, with Stanley Kubrick's movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) being a climax in this regard. People are also interested by inner space. In Fantastic Voyage (Richard Fleischer, 1966), miniature submarines allow a medical team to adventure into the familiar and mysterious universe of the human body. In a certain wa...

Animal Behavior: The Family that Works Together Stays Together

A new study shows that biparental care in frogs is more likely to evolve when tadpoles are reared under environmentally harsh conditions. Biparental care facilitates both social monogamy and genetic monogamy; frogs that work together to raise their offspring have higher mating fidelity to one another.

Group Situational Awareness: Being Together

In many cases, museum visitors come to the museum in small groups of friends or families. Their level of ‘togetherness’ may be implied by their proximity and interaction. Position proximity is a basic requirement to enable quiet face to face conversation in a museum, while voice communication is an example of interaction. Group ‘togetherness’ may be measured to serve two purposes: (1) on the mi...