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Old Research Highlights

 

Microfabricating active flows

Using entropy to cross barriers

Quantum simulators gain high fidelity

Increasing the effectiveness of active learning

Spontaneous twisted double helices in liquid crystals

Bacteria can propel themselves while stuck together

Twisted filaments sense bacterial shape

Filling a void in the understanding of amorphous solar cells

Active nematics go three-dimensional

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