Bacteria are among the oldest and most abundant species on Earth. Bacteria successfully
colonize diverse habitats and play a significant role in the oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are ubiquitous in display technologies. The orientational ordering in the
nematic phase of LCs gives rise to structural anisotropy, the ability to form topological …

Controlling interfaces of phase-separating fluid mixtures is key to the creation of diverse
functional soft materials. Traditionally, this is accomplished with surface-modifying chemical …

It has been proposed that during the early steps in the origin of life, small droplets could
have formed via the segregation of molecules from complex mixtures by phase separation …

During vertebrate organogenesis, increases in morphological complexity are tightly coupled
to morphogen expression. In this work, we studied how morphogens influence self …

The human eye is bored by monotonous landscapes. We are depressed by gray skies,
unending plains under the wing of an airliner, featureless urban sprawl, geometric …

Active matter embraces systems that self-organize at different length and time scales, often
exhibiting turbulent flows apparently deprived of spatiotemporal coherence. Here, we use a …

Nematic order on curved surfaces is often disrupted by the presence of topological defects,
which are singular regions in which the orientational order is undefined. In the presence of …

Collective migration of eukaryotic cells plays a fundamental role in tissue growth, wound
healing and immune response. The motion, arising spontaneously or in response to …

The physics of active liquid crystals is mostly governed by the interplay between elastic
forces that align their constituents, and active stresses that destabilize the order with …