{"666817":{"#nid":"666817","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Chia seedlings verify Alan Turing\u2019s ideas about patterns in nature","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChia seeds sprouted in trays have experimentally confirmed a mathematical model proposed by computer scientist and polymath Alan Turing decades ago. The model describes how patterns might emerge in nature, such as desert vegetation, leopard spots and zebra stripes.\u0026nbsp;But proving that Turing\u2019s model explains patterns in the real world\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/tweaking-pattern-equations\u0022\u003Ehas been challenging\u003C\/a\u003E. It could be that the idea is a mathematical just-so story that happens to produce similar shapes in a computer, says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/flavio-fenton\u0022\u003EFlavio Fenton\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E. Brendan D\u0027Aquino, a Northeastern University computer science undergraduate student who studied in Fenton\u0027s lab in the summer of 2022, described his Turing-based experiment at the recent American Physical Society March meeting.\u0026nbsp;(This story also appeared in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/alan-turings-famous-mathematical-model-was-right-all-along-chia-seed-experiment-reveals\u0022\u003ELiveScience\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"basic_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChia seeds sprouted in trays have experimentally confirmed a mathematical model proposed by computer scientist and polymath Alan Turing decades ago. The model describes how patterns might emerge in nature, such as desert vegetation, leopard spots and zebra stripes.\u0026nbsp;But proving that Turing\u2019s model explains patterns in the real world\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/tweaking-pattern-equations\u0022\u003Ehas been challenging\u003C\/a\u003E. It could be that the idea is a mathematical just-so story that happens to produce similar shapes in a computer, says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/flavio-fenton\u0022\u003EFlavio Fenton\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E. Brendan D\u0027Aquino, a Northeastern University computer science undergraduate student who studied in Fenton\u0027s lab in the summer of 2022, described his Turing-based experiment at the recent American Physical Society March meeting. (This story also appeared in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/alan-turings-famous-mathematical-model-was-right-all-along-chia-seed-experiment-reveals\u0022\u003ELiveScience\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"basic_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-03-27 13:50:57","changed_gmt":"2023-04-10 14:48:39","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Science News ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/seeds-alan-turing-patterns-nature-math","dateline":{"date":"2023-03-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-03-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"112191","name":"Flavio Fenton"},{"id":"38301","name":"alan turing"},{"id":"192403","name":"patterns in nature"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}