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

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 ...
Scientific Research Publishing

SymPcNSGA-Testing: A Hybrid Approach to Mitigate Path Explosion in Software Programs ()

To address these shortcomings, we introduce SymPcNSGA-Testing (Symbolic execution, Path clustering and NSGA-II Testing), a ...
IEEE

The Cost of Randomness in Evolutionary Algorithms: Crossover Can Save Random Bits

Abstract: Evolutionary algorithms make countless random decisions during selection, mutation, and crossover operations. These random decisions require a steady stream of random numbers. We analyze the ...