A recent study by a team of researchers led by TU Darmstadt has found that tiny amounts of liquid can navigate their way through unknown environments like living cells—without sensors, computers or ...

Magnetic domains can take on a wide range of structures. In certain soft magnetic materials, they form complex zig-zag patterns known as maze domains. These patterns change in complicated ways as ...

These maze domains show complex and abrupt temperature-dependent behavior that can significantly affect energy loss. However, analyzing such structures remains challenging using current models due to ...

New model uses persistent homology to analyze topological features in data and extract inhomogeneous structural features from the domain images. Entropy-extended free energy landscape reveals ...

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In the Micromouse competition, tiny autonomous robots race to solve complex mazes as quickly as possible. Some of the fastest robots can complete the course in as little as six seconds, using sensors, ...