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Home » Biophysics and bioengineering » Biophysics » Flash Physics: Lizards are cellular automatons, graphene keeps a lid on liquids, electron pulses outrun atoms

Flash Physics: Lizards are cellular automatons, graphene keeps a lid on liquids, electron pulses outrun atoms

13 Apr 2017 Sarah Tesh

Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters

Photograph of an ocellated lizard
Spot on: this ocellated lizard is a cellular automaton. (Courtesy: Michel C Milinkovitch)
Spotty lizards are cellular automatons A lizard can change its spots, and now scientists have shown

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