A geneticist is studying pythons for clues about human health and longevity

A team of researchers believes that pythons may contain clues to help treat a range of human ailments — from heart disease to muscle atrophy, and more.

Python scales host microstructures that block bacterial biofilms—revealing potential for antimicrobial materials

Materials inspired by nature, or biomimetic materials, are nothing new. Scientists have designed water-resistant materials ...
IEEE

Two-Stage Clustering and Independent Competing Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Multimodal Multi-Objective Optimization

Abstract: The multimodal multi-objective optimization problem (MMOP) involves multiple distinct components of the Pareto set (PS), which correspond to the same Pareto front (PF). Most existing ...
IEEE

LLM-Driven Evolutionary Algorithm Selection: Bidirectional Framework and Sampling Paradigm

Abstract: Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) exhibit diverse performance across different optimization problems, making the automated selection of the most suitable EA an important yet challenging task.
Hackaday

Slug Algorithm For On-GPU Rendering Of Fonts With Bézier Curves Now In Public Domain

The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves ...