Across
- 3. What good is an ice cream cone? Can it show reversible opening and closing like me? All I need is just some water!
- 5. Hello humans! I'm one of the most widespread species in the world! Can you beat my ability in changing colors by adjusting my refractive index?!
- 7. On my surface, even the boldest droplet is compelled to dissolve into a flawless film.
- 8. Small I may be, but with my colony, I can rule continents!
- 9. The color blue is quite rare in the natural world. But I have perfected it through structural color. What species of butterfly am I?
- 10. I'm a class of algorithms whereby super intelligence comes from association, much more than individual intelligence.
Down
- 1. Reach my threshold limit in composites, and boom, suddenly your properties skyrocket
- 2. I'm the code that makes evolution possible, and oh, I also lend my name to computing frameworks where a combination of good and poor solutions can be used iteratively to optimize to the best solution.
- 4. I may have a gentle name; my vegetable cousin cucumber is no good in protecting itself, however, I can strengthen my surface almost instantly.
- 6. You may brag about your wealth, but you cannot predict scattering of light from surfaces without my equation!