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Summary: Researchers have found a way to hide secrete messages inside self-organizing patterns. Self-organizing patterns include zebra stripes, flocks of birds, and termite colonies, to name a few. These examples might seem biological, but it is physicists who study the science of self organizing patterns -- and sometimes hide top secret messages in them.