A substrate does not have to be solid to compute. It is possible to make a computer purely
from a liquid. I demonstrate this using a variety of experimental prototypes where a liquid …

One of the most salient features of life is its capacity to handle novelty and namely to thrive
and adapt to new circumstances and changes in both the environment and internal …

Today we can use physics to describe in great detail many of the phenomena intervening in
the process of life. But no analogous unified description exists for the phenomenon of life …

We present a benchmark study of autonomous, chemical agents exhibiting associative
learning of an environmental feature. Associative learning systems have been widely …

Chemically or optically powered active matter plays an increasingly important role in
materials design, but its computational potential has yet to be explored systematically. The …

Every problem in computing can be cast as decision problems of whether strings are in a
language or not. Computations and language recognition are carried out by three classes of …

We present an experimental system of networks of coupled non-linear chemical reactors,
which we theoretically model within a reaction–diffusion framework. The networks consist of …

Abstract In Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) type reactions, chemical oxidation waves can be
exploited to produce reaction-diffusion processors. This paper reports on a new method of …

Computing with molecules is at the center of complex natural phenomena, where the
information contained in ordered sequences of molecules is used to implement …

External control of oscillation dynamics in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction is
important for many applications including encoding computing schemes. When considering …