Does the universe follow patterns, or do we humans just see them wherever we look? In a new paper for the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, SFI Program Postdoctoral Fellow Tyler Millhouse proposes a criterion evaluating ...
Social Sciences
Jul 28, 2021
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What connection could possibly exist between the stripes on tropical fish and crystal growth? The answer is the way in which order emerges from randomness through Turing patterns, according to what a research team led by ...
Nanophysics
Jul 8, 2021
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In the September issue of the journal Nature, scientists from Texas A&M University, Hewlett Packard Labs and Stanford University have described a new nanodevice that acts almost identically to a brain cell. Furthermore, they ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 24, 2020
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One of the most fascinating and important properties of living cells is their capacity for self-organization. By talking to each other, cells can, among other things, determine where they are in relation to each other and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 16, 2020
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Secured in place in a virtual-reality-equipped chamber, frustrated zebrafish just didn't want to swim anymore.
Plants & Animals
Jun 20, 2019
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In 1998 former tech consultant Hank Eskin launched a campaign to track dollar bills. Through the "Where's George?" initiative, dollars were stamped with messages about the currency tracking project, and people were instructed ...
General Physics
Mar 29, 2019
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A KAIST research team developed a novel fabrication method for the multilayer processing of silk-based microelectronics. This technology for creating a biodegradable silk fibroin film allows microfabrication with polymer ...
Materials Science
Mar 15, 2019
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A pigeon bopping along to a busker playing "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams set Twitter abuzz in 2013. It's certainly a catchy tune that I can't help but tap my foot along to, but is that really what ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 14, 2019
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Japanese researchers have described a new implantable device no bigger than the width of a coin that can be used to control brain patterns. The device, reported in AIP Advances, converts infrared light into blue light to ...
Optics & Photonics
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A team of researchers from several institutions in Hungary has found that dogs, like humans, very often have sleep problems after experiencing emotional difficulties. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society ...
