Ecological communities are subjected to stochasticity in the form of demographic and environmental variance. Stochastic models that contain only demographic variance (neutral models) provide close ...

In his brilliant novel ‘Lila,’ author Robert Pirsig makes the point that all good systems are the result of a harmonious balance between static and dynamic patterns. Static patterns represent forces ...

Physicists observed a strange new type of behavior in a magnetic material when it's heated up. The magnetic spins 'freeze' into a static pattern when the temperature rises, a phenomenon that normally ...

Break free of static patterns! Embrace dynamic vortices! Such is the MeniFluidics Manifesto, a biomaterials movement that encompasses science and art. It is, in fact, a movement about movement—the ...

Forward-looking: On Friday, the US Patent and Trademark Office released a patent application from Apple for a new kind of haptic system using something it calls "a static pattern electrostatic haptic ...