Fourth-grade students at Coastal Ridge Elementary School in York, Maine, participated in a life-sized version of the Game of Life. The interactive game aimed to teach students about financial literacy ...

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules. Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on ...

John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. In 1969, the British mathematician John Conway devised a beguilingly simple ...

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