Of potential interest to the list:
How animals find things (Jun 1)
Animals use power laws to minimize the time they spend searching for
hidden objects, according to a group of physicists in France. Olivier
B??nichou and colleagues at the University of Paris 6 and the Curie
Institute, also in Paris, came to their conclusion by developing a
mathematical model of animal searching patterns. They found that their
model agrees with previous observations made by biologists and say that
it could be used to speed up human searching (Phys. Rev. Lett. 94
198101).
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/9/6/1
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