A VTuber appeared in a physics paperSourced
Sakura Miko turned up in a paper on stability and thermodynamics.
The Japanese VTuber Sakura Miko was used as an example in a 2024 paper titled 'Structural stability and thermodynamics of artistic composition,' published in PNAS. A livestreaming personality had found an unexpected place in academic research.
Research examples can come from surprising corners of culture.
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