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Neil Shubin on Tiktaalik, Ballistic Tongues and Evolution
...totally agree with the popular idea in evolutionary biology that goes by the name of contingency. Contingency is the idea that accidents and randomness dominate the story of evolution. Like...
How to Understand COVID-19 Variants and Their Effects on Vaccines
...number of other SARS-CoV-2 mutations have been identified around the globe. Some of the variants currently circulating in the population do seem to be more evolutionarily fit than their older...
Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn
...doing backpropagation,” said Kording. “And evolution is pretty damn awesome. Backpropagation is useful. I presume that evolution kind of gets us there.” Researchers are learning more about how networks of...
Growing Inventory of Black Holes Offers a Radical Probe of the Cosmos
...holes form, and why they merge. This growing black hole inventory could also offer a novel way to probe cosmological evolution — from the Big Bang through the birth of...
Some Proteins Change Their Folds to Perform Different Jobs
...chain of amino acids that folds into a single stable configuration, one that evolution has selected over the ages for a particular function. But in the last few years, biophysicists...
Rumbles on Mars Raise Hopes of Underground Magma Flows
...slowly.” We have almost no certain knowledge about the inside of worlds, including our own. That’s a problem. “With few exceptions, the thermal evolution of a planet governs everything,” said...
The Hard Lessons of Modeling the Coronavirus Pandemic
...pandemic response — that is, until everything went wrong. Their typical areas of research include building models for condensed matter physics, viral evolution and population dynamics, not epidemiology or public...
Secret Ingredient Found to Power Supernovas
...in many different fields of physics — from nuclear physics to stellar evolution. Moreover, theorists can now run many simulations each year, allowing them to freely tweak the models and...
The Curious Strength of a Sea Sponge’s Glass Skeleton
...transport, or even more streamlined engineering in vehicles bound for space. “The process of trial and error over millions of years of evolution brings out the best” in materials, said...