Schematic of bubble membrane showing the influence of membrane stiffener and membrane softener in the phospholipid packing. Credit: Amin Jafari Sojahrood and Al C. de Leon If you were given "ultrasound" in a word association game, "sound wave" might easily come to mind. But in recent years, a new term has surfaced: bubbles. Those...
Sketch of the collective decision-making process described by Karamched et al. In a population of undecided agents (blue), an early adopter (red) makes a poor decision. Seeing this decision, a set of early adopters follow suit, but a slightly larger set of early adopters (green) picks the most beneficial solution. After observing the decision-making...