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Scientists Find Vital Genes Evolving in Genome’s Junkyard
...evolutionary time — evolving only very slowly if at all, because changing or dying would lead to the death of the organism. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution separate...
What Is a Particle?
...said. “Then we can say, ‘Aha, now I can see why this picture can be interpreted as evolution.’” It-from-qubit and amplitudeology approach the big questions so differently that it’s hard...
Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction From Moments After the Big Bang
...time. Cosmologists want to check whether the density of the cosmos changed from one period to the other as expected based on their models of cosmic evolution. If the two...
Deep Neural Networks Help to Explain Living Brains
...the performance of humans, who are extremely good at recognizing objects despite variation. Unbeknownst to Yamins, a revolution brewing in the world of computer vision would also independently validate the...
To Boldly Go Where No Internet Protocol Has Gone Before
...to introduce DTN everywhere, because look at how much TCP/IP there is. There’s also been an evolution on the internet side to another set of protocols called QUIC that achieves...
A Physicist’s Approach to Biology Brings Ecological Insights
...yeast to experimentally probe the evolution of cooperative behavior. Over time, Gore was seduced by what he calls ecology’s “big, beautiful theories” for how living beings can exist in complex...
How Two Became One: Origins of a Mysterious Symbiosis Found
...insights into how a complex evolutionary interaction between vastly different partners can play out on a molecular and developmental level over evolutionary time.” Partnering for Success Of the roughly 12,000...
An Unexpected Twist Lights Up the Secrets of Turbulence
...the researchers to see and closely measure the evolution of the vortices. Then they had a lucky break: They took to writing on the hydrofoils with a Sharpie to help...
By Losing Genes, Life Often Evolved More Complexity
...Wisconsin Energy Institute and their co-authors wrote in their paper, “Our results argue that reductive evolution is a major mode of evolutionary diversification.” Of course, the risk of evolving by...