A new kind of spiral wave embraces disorder
In the widening gyre, the center doesn’t hold
![3-D simulation of a spiral wave](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/121417_EC_spiral-wave_main.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
SAY YES TO THE MESS A new type of spiral wave has a disordered center. For the first time, a spiral wave chimera (shown in 3-D in a computer simulation) has been created in a laboratory.
Jan F. Totz