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Since September 2025, Ines Ngoh has been working at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in the United Kingdom as part of the EMBL-UNESCO Residency in ...

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) has long been the best-known Photoshop alternative. Its wide range of functions, robust layer management, and extensive set of filters come very close to the ...

How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...

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New shape filling and pattern generating tools are available in Illustrator, powered by Adobe’s latest Firefly Vector AI model. New shape filling and pattern generating tools are available in ...

Camouflage isn't the only way cephalopods have evolved to change their appearance. Octopuses and other cephalopods make the fastest transformations in the animal kingdom. Here, a giant Pacific octopus ...