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Why Do We Die Without Sleep?
...more about the evolutionary history of sleep. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn or your favorite podcasting app, or you can stream it from Quanta. Transcript Steven...
Deep Curiosity Inspires The Joy of Why Podcast
...about some of the biggest unanswered questions in science and math today, I was delighted to say yes. We are calling it The Joy of Why. It’s a natural evolution...
This Animal’s Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed
...as a placozoan, has practically an entire branch on the evolutionary tree of life to itself, as well as the smallest known genome in the animal kingdom. But what intrigued...
Peptides on Stardust May Have Provided a Shortcut to Life
...first molecules involved in the evolutionary process leading to life,” he said. Whether those peptides could have survived their arduous trek from space and contributed meaningfully to the origin of...
In Search of Cracks in Albert Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
...need more data. The idea now is to take a movie of the black hole to see its evolution. Maybe it will give us better restrictions on the theories we...
A Billion Years Before Sex, Ancient Cells Were Equipped for It
...which could snuff out their lineage. Why this hazardous arrangement caught on in evolution has been the subject of intense study; it’s generally presumed that sexual recombination helps to keep...
Computer Scientists Prove Why Bigger Neural Networks Do Better
...if evolution had given us extra thumbs, things probably wouldn’t have improved much. One thumb per hand is enough. Not so for neural networks, the leading artificial intelligence systems for...
Secrets of Early Animal Evolution Revealed by Chromosome ‘Tectonics’
...a broader picture of chromosome evolution across the tree of life,” said Paulyn Cartwright, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas. Now, she said, scientists...
A Solution to the Faint-Sun Paradox Reveals a Narrow Window for Life
...fact reveal the very reason for our existence. The Paradox In the mid-20th century, scientists started to understand the mechanics that drive the evolution of stars like our sun. Deep...