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Maybe “shoot for the moon” isn’t the best strategy after all? 🌙

A model suggests the optimal level of ambition is slightly above average: ambitious enough to reach better opportunities, but not so high you waste time chasing impossible goals. Read more in @PhysRevE: https://t.co/PlSnBAa1uj

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Using a general theoretical framework for multi-resonant absorption in an open, dissipative optical system, this study reveals the upper bounds of broadband light absorption and identifies ideal light-trapping strategies for #SolarCells.

Read the paper: https://t.co/5Chv8VX1cC

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A new mathematical theory captures how individual cell states and intracellular stochastic gene expression drive development and can be reduced to simpler, interpretable models of tissue growth and epigenetic fitness.

Read the paper in PRX Life: https://t.co/Yw2fkK8gi6

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A new theoretical framework based on the Schrödinger equation can be used to describe metashells — elastic shells patterned with an internal structure. The framework also demonstrates that periodic metashells support elastic Bloch waves.

🔗 https://t.co/DppeAnwibv

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Scientists develop a model of musical rhythm and meter that mimics humans’ opposing preferences for both repetition and variety and, using a statistical physics analogy, observe phase transitions that closely match patterns in musical compositions.

🔗 https://t.co/aCrSXyjjnr

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And just like that, another issue of Physical Review Letters has closed.

#OnTheCover: Orbital-resolved constant-energy contour for Fe0.3NbS2 using ARPES.

Read the issue: https://t.co/AsHcbMfzbz