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Symmetry breaking in evaporating droplet and formation of flower-like pattern

Abstract When a droplet evaporates, the components dissolved within it can deposit in patterns that reflect the underlying fluid dynamics. We report the formation of a flower-like deposition pattern of micrometer-sized particles from an evaporating droplet containing salt and pol...

A firefly-inspired model for detecting the alien

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has historically been a search for aliens like us, shaped by human-centric ideas of intelligence, communication, and technology. However, humans are not the only instance of an intelligent, communicating species on Earth, and th...

EFECT enables reliable and reproducible stochastic simulations across disciplines

Stochastic simulations underpin computational research in fields from systems biology and epidemiology to finance and physics-informed machine learning, yet their reproducibility is hard to quantify because each run yields different outcomes. Existing practices to improve computa...