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Can Vaccines for Wildlife Prevent Human Pandemics?
...wild population on their own? Some scientists think so. Recently in Nature Ecology & Evolution, a pair of biologists at the University of Idaho argued for that approach. The idea...
The Physicist Who Slayed Gravity’s Ghosts
...in the bedroom and we talked for two hours, de Rham’s expressive and energetic hand gestures articulating the evolution of the cosmos and occasionally colliding with the webcam. The interview...
Extra DNA May Make Unlikely Hybrid Fish Possible
...a few dozen million years ago. The evolutionary paths of paddlefish and sturgeons diverged 184 million years ago. For those fish to breed is more like “if a human came...
Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis.
...wastes green light. What they did not expect was that their model would also explain the colors of other photosynthetic forms of life too. Their findings point to an evolutionary...
How Earth’s Climate Changes Naturally (and Why Things Are Different Now)
...atmosphere from vaporized Mexican limestone. How or whether volcanic activity in India around the same time as the impact exacerbated the climate change and mass extinction remains controversial. Evolutionary Changes...
What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory.
...disentangling the complex symbioses and relationships that define a community. Evolutionary biologists, who study natural selection and how it chooses individuals for reproductive success, need to figure out what constitutes...
Why Is Glass Rigid? Signs of Its Secret Structure Emerge.
...said. Bapst and his colleagues first used the results of simulations to train their AI system: They created a virtual cube of glass comprising 4,096 molecules, simulated the evolution of...
Cosmic Rays May Explain Life’s Bias for Right-Handed DNA
Cosmic rays may have given right-handed genetic helixes an evolutionary edge at the beginning of life’s history. If you could shrink small enough to descend the genetic helix of any...
This Cosmologist Knows How It’s All Going to End
...of dark matter, the physics of the early universe, the evolution of galaxies and the nature of black holes. But she’s most widely known as a science communicator and social...