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Order in chaos

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Figure 1: Recurrent pattern created by Rothstein et al.1 using electromagnetic forces to stir a thin, viscous fluid layer.

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Aref, H. Order in chaos. Nature 401, 756–758 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/44495

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