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martedì 25 aprile 2023

# evol: gentle bonobos vs. aggressive chimps ...


<< Among the great apes, the chimpanzees and the bonobos are the most genetically related to us as we share about 98.7% of our DNA with them. >>️

<< So where exactly do humans stand? We seem to have incorporated the traits of both species, resulting in a tension between our aggressive and harmonious proclivities. Our tendency for conflict mirrors the competitiveness of chimpanzees, and yet the bonobos teach us that we have it in us to be altruistic and that society can be organised in more peaceful ways. This selflessness underlies the large-scale cooperation that has helped Homo sapiens share ideas, form nations, explore the universe and outlast other early humans such as Homo erectus. >>️

Jose Yong. Bonobos and chimps: what our closest relatives tell us about humans. theconversation.com. April 4, 2023. 


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Keywords: evolution, chimps, bonobos,  chimpanzees, behavior


lunedì 24 aprile 2023

# gst: emergent organization and polarization due to active fluctuations.


AA << introduce and study a model of active Brownian motion with multiplicative noise describing fluctuations in the self-propulsion or activity. (They) find that the standard picture of density accumulation in slow regions is qualitatively modified by active fluctuations, as stationary density profiles are generally not determined only by the mean self-propulsion speed landscape. As a result, activity gradients generically correlate the particle self-propulsion speed and orientation, leading to emergent polarization at interfaces pointing either towards dense or dilute regions depending on the amount of noise in the system.  >>
Benoit Mahault, Prakhar Godara, Ramin Golestanian. Emergent organization and polarization due to active fluctuations. Phys. Rev. Research 5, L022012. April 12, 2023. 

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Keywords: gst, particle, organization, polarization, fluctuations, noise, self-propulsion, self-assembly 



sabato 22 aprile 2023

# gst: when droplets are capable of self-propulsion as if they were surfing on a self-generated wave.


<< active droplets can move autonomously or oscillate between confining walls (..). Those behaviors could provide a clue about how life emerged from inanimate material. >>️

<< in the past decades, it has become clear that weak physical interactions among biomolecules are a crucial part of the answer. Such interactions allow some molecules to stay together transiently while avoiding others, which can lead to the spontaneous formation of droplets whose composition differs from their surroundings. Although biochemist Alexander Oparin suggested such ideas a century ago (..), experimental corroboration arrived only recently >>️

<< The key contribution of Demarchi and his collaborators is to demonstrate that droplet drift can enhance the heterogeneity of substrate and product. The resulting positive feedback allows droplets to move continuously as if they were surfing on a self-generated wave. >>️

David Zwicker. Droplets Come to Life. Physics 16, 45. Mar 20, 2023. 

AA << find that condensates move toward the center of a confining domain when this feedback is weak. Above a feedback threshold, they exhibit self-propulsion, leading to oscillatory dynamics. Moreover, catalysis-driven enzyme fluxes can lead to interrupted coarsening, resulting in equidistant condensate positioning, and to condensate division. >>
Leonardo Demarchi, Andriy Goychuk, et al. Enzyme-Enriched Condensates Show Self-Propulsion, Positioning, and Coexistence. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 128401. Mar 20, 2023.

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Keywords: gst, drop, droplet, waves, transition, liquid-liquid phase transition, nonequilibrium systems




sabato 15 aprile 2023

# gst: the physiological emergence and evolution of cell-spanning vortices (inside Drosophila oocytes).


<< Life in complex systems, such as cities and organisms, comes to a standstill when global coordination of mass, energy, and information flows is disrupted. Global coordination is no less important in single cells, especially in large oocytes and newly formed embryos, which commonly use fast fluid flows for dynamic reorganization of their cytoplasm. Here, (AA) combine theory, computing, and imaging to investigate such flows in the Drosophila oocyte, where streaming has been proposed to spontaneously arise from hydrodynamic interactions among cortically anchored microtubules loaded with cargo-carrying molecular motors. >>️

Sayantan Dutta, Reza Farhadifar, et al. Self-organized intracellular twisters. arXiv: 2304.02112v2 [physics.bio-ph].  Apr 6, 2023. 

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Keywords: gst, fluid dynamics, vortex, vortices, vortexes, vorticity,


venerdì 14 aprile 2023

# gst: even a single bubble can produce creative musical outcomes


<< Producing original and arranging existing musical outcomes is an art that takes years of learning and practice to master. Yet, despite the constant advances in the field of AI-powered musical creativity, production of quality musical outcomes remains a prerogative of the humans. Here we demonstrate that a single bubble in water can be used to produce creative musical outcomes, when it nonlinearly oscillates under an acoustic pressure signal that encodes a piece of classical music. >>️

Ivan S. Maksymov. Musical creativity enabled by nonlinear oscillations of a bubble in water. arXiv:2304.00822v1 [cs.SD]. Apr 3, 2023. 

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Keywords: gst, ai, fluid dynamics, bubble, sound, music, audio processing



venerdì 7 aprile 2023

# gst: packing in slender structures, the geometry of squeezed elastic beams


<< The behavior of a collection of squeezed elastic beams is determined by geometry, not by complex forces. >>️

Dan Garisto. How Order Emerges in Bendy Beam Bunches. Physics 16, 54. Apr 3, 2023.

<< A collection of thin structures buckle, bend, and bump into each other when confined. This contact can lead to the formation of patterns: hair will self-organize in curls; DNA strands will layer into cell nuclei; paper, when crumpled, will fold in on itself, forming a maze of interleaved sheets. This pattern formation changes how densely the structures can pack, as well as the mechanical properties of the system. >>️

<< Here (AA) study the emergence of order in a canonical example of packing in slender structures, i.e., a system of parallel confined elastic beams. >>️

They << find that the compressive stiffness and stored bending energy of this metamaterial are directly proportional to the number of beams that are geometrically frustrated at any given point.  >>
Arman Guerra, Anja C. Slim, et al. Self-Ordering of Buckling, Bending, and Bumping Beams. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 148201. Apr 3, 2023.

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Keywords: gst, self-assembly, beams, buckling, bending, bumping, elasticity





venerdì 31 marzo 2023

# gst: influence of disorder on the spreading and entanglement properties of coined quantum walks.


AA << investigate the influence of disorder on the spreading and entanglement properties of coined quantum walks. Specifically, (AA) consider quantum walks on the line and explore the effects of quenched disorder in the coin operations. (They) find that coin disorder alters the usual ballistic transport properties of coined quantum walks considerably and yields an extremely slow dynamics with strong evidence for localization behavior. (They) investigate this slow dynamics by comparing different properties of the walker occupation probability with the standard Hadamard walk. (They) find that the walker distribution, and a number of properties associated with it, are significantly altered by the coin disorder. Special focus is given to the influence of coin disorder on entanglement properties. (AA) observe that generically, coin disorder decreases the coin-walker entanglement. The behavior of the entanglement properties further supports the premise that coin disorder induces localization in coined quantum walks. >>

Louie Hong Yao, Sascha Wald. Coined Quantum Walks on the Line: Disorder, Entanglement and Localization. arXiv: 2303.15978v1 [quant-ph]. doi: 10.48550/ arXiv.2303.15978. 28 Mar 28, 2023.

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Keywords: gst, disorder, quantum physics, walk, walking, coined quantum walks