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Constraining policies to select behavior modules allows reinforcement learning transfer from simulation to real robot swarms.

A long-standing challenge in neuroscience is simulating brain networks that are anatomically realistic. By integrating a simple yet elegant principle—developmental timing, or heterochronicity—this ...

The bite of a female mosquito is the critical point of pathogen transmission, yet the fine-scale biting dynamics on human skin remain unknown. Here, we combine high-speed videography, ...

The set of genes present in mammalian genomes is largely constant, however large rearrangements of chromosomes accumulate over long evolutionary timescales, scrambling the order in which genes appear ...

An improved particle swarm optimization algorithm, enhanced with genetic algorithm crossover and mutation operators, is used to optimize global parameters and minimize residuals. Real-vehicle data ...