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Solution: ‘Randomness From Determinism’
...two different interpretations: real or unreal. But if the worlds are unreal, then the Everett procedure is merely a mathematical artifice that allows you to imagine that the quantum evolution...
Playing Hide-and-Seek, Machines Invent New Tools
...from chess to StarCraft II; it’s also an adaptation that seems likely to confer an evolutionary advantage. So it went with hide-and-seek. Even though the AI agents hadn’t received explicit...
Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence
...artificial intelligence called neuroevolution, which co-opts the principles of biological evolution to design smarter algorithms. With Picbreeder, each image was the output of a computational system similar to a neural...
Cosmic Triangles Open a Window to the Origin of Time
...time evolution, this for me was the clearest instance of the emergence of time,” said Baumann, who is now a professor at the University of Amsterdam. In this and a...
Inherited Learning? It Happens, but How Is Uncertain
...of inheritance and an explanation for evolution, enduring even after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Then experimental tests, the rise of Mendelian genetics, and the wealth of...
Nobel Awarded for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Portable Power
...and Whittingham. “It’s the lithium-ion battery that’s really underpinned the whole portable electronics revolution and is also making increased reduction of CO2 possible,” she added. “Over two-thirds of the world’s...
Nobel Prize Awarded for Discoveries on How Cells Adapt to Oxygen
...ability to form highly specialized tissues, maintain stem cell populations, and expand into new habitats. How organisms deal with oxygen, in fact, has been a pivotal factor in evolution for...
Cell-Bacteria Mergers Offer Clues to How Organelles Evolved
...and organelle.” W. Ford Doolittle, an evolutionary and molecular biologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, says this study represents “a necessary and exciting amount of ground-truthing” because it tested...
How Jurassic Plankton Stole Control of the Ocean’s Chemistry
...changed when certain tiny marine creatures emerged in the Jurassic — and evolution in the ocean was never the same again. A Plankton Revolution About 250 million years ago, at...