Category: Complexity
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Primitive. Simple. Advanced. Complex.
Scientists have developed a new approach for generating layered, difficult-to-combine, heterostructured solids (materials composed of layers of dissimilar building blocks), opening new avenues for electronic and energy applications. The technique for making them is simple, and counterintuitive — it involves smashing the pristine materials to build new ones. Smashing things together by milling seems like…
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Rivers. Complex deltas. Order out of chaos.
River deltas, with their intricate networks of waterways, coastal barrier islands, wetlands and estuaries, often appear to have been formed by random processes, but scientists at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions see order in the apparent chaos. Through field studies and mathematical modeling, they have concluded that deltas “self-organize” to increase the…
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