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 ...
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

A Federated Data-driven Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm via Continual Learnable Clustering

Abstract: As solution evaluation costs increase, data-driven multiobjective optimization is becoming more critical. Using multiple computers in parallel helps manage computation times. Federated ...
IEEE

Bridging Evolutionary Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning: A Comprehensive Survey on Hybrid Algorithms

Abstract: Evolutionary reinforcement learning (ERL), which integrates the evolutionary algorithms (EAs) and reinforcement learning (RL) for optimization, has demonstrated remarkable performance ...