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Iceland’s Eruptions Reveal the Hot History of Mars
...up for a future eruption. Yet little is concretely understood about the origins, evolution and behavior of Mars’ volcanism, which is one reason why researchers are excited to use the...
Long-Missing Midsize Black Hole Flashes Into View
...drive the evolution of the galaxies they inhabit. Yet astronomers can’t figure out how they got so big. Some appear to have formed as early as 600 million years after...
Finding Zen in the Art of Puzzle Solving
...color. The round at which this occurs is listed in the second column. The evolution of the pot is shown for each of the six possible card orders for four-card...
Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life
New data indicating that Earth’s surface broke up about 3.2 billion years ago helps clarify how plate tectonics drove the evolution of complex life. In 2016, the geochemists Jonas Tusch...
Why Extraterrestrial Life Might Not Be So Alien
The zoologist Arik Kershenbaum of the University of Cambridge discusses convergent evolution, animal communications and why life throughout the universe may have certain common features. Emily Buder/Quanta Magazine; Luke Wolagiewicz...
Why Extraterrestrial Life May Not Seem Entirely Alien
...of evolution,” said Kershenbaum, a lecturer and director of studies in the natural sciences at the university’s Girton College. He argues that evolution is a universal law of nature, like...
Frank Wilczek on the Strong Force, Quarks and Dark Matter
...theory. Wilczek: That’s right. Yeah. And basically, the theory is a kind of theory of evolution of this coupling. See, within the standard model, it’s just a number that could...
What Is Life? Its Vast Diversity Defies Easy Definition.
...agreed on one thing: life is self‐reproduction with variations. What NASA’s scientists had done in eleven words (“Life is a self‐sustained chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution”), Trifonov now...
Bonnie Bassler on Talkative Bacteria and Eavesdropping Viruses
...evolution, right? To — and certainly they get more complicated and possibly more fascinating in higher organisms, but we think we’re really learning something about: What does it take to...