Designer Reverse-Engineers Face-Detection Tech to Develop Camouflage Makeup
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View ArticleCelebrating Benoit Mandelbrot, the Man Who Made Math Beautiful
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Self-Replicating Motif Inspired by DNA replication rules, tile motifs recognize and bind to complementary tiles to form a new, unique sequence. Wang et al./Nature One of the hallmarks of living things...
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Albert-László Barabási Julian Dufort In 1736 the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler ended a debate among the citizens of Königsberg, Prussia, by drawing a graph. The Pregel River divided the city, now...
View ArticleInvisible Warriors: The Future of Camo
New Camo Courtesy Special Operations Apps Camouflage works by confusing the brain. Disruptive patterns obscure a form's outline, making objects less likely to stand out. But camo has a weakness: No...
View ArticleDesigner Reverse-Engineers Face-Detection Tech to Develop Camouflage Makeup
Face-recognition technology is already helping surveillance cameras pick out individual faces of suspects, and even smartphone apps may soon allow you to ID strangers on the…
View ArticleCelebrating Benoit Mandelbrot, the Man Who Made Math Beautiful
As modern mathematicians go, few were better known or more celebrated than Benoit Mandelbrot. The father of fractals died late last week at age 85, prompting reflection on…
View ArticleStructural Self-Replication Based on DNA Could Create New Materials
One of the hallmarks of living things is self-replication, the ability to make new copies of biological structures. Scientists have harnessed this ability in several ways,…
View ArticleThis Man Could Rule the World
In 1736 the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler ended a debate among the citizens of Königsberg, Prussia, by drawing a graph. The Pregel River divided the city, now…
View ArticleInvisible Warriors: The Future of Camo
Camouflage works by confusing the brain. Disruptive patterns obscure a formâs outline, making objects less likely to stand out. But camo has a weakness: No pattern works…
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