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 ...

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 ...

A wise professor once told me that, "If God intended to make the perfect creature in his own image, then God is a squid." While some may call this a slight exaggeration—everyone knows that, by that ...

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 ...