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The Year in Biology
...known to science. Because of evolution, we can see how the web of life also extends back through time, with genomic connections that link very different organisms through common ancestry....
Why Black Hole Interiors Grow (Almost) Forever
...space is connected to the growth of some kind of complexity. And whether the cosmic clock, the evolution of the universe, is connected with the evolution of complexity. There, I...
New Quantum Paradox Clarifies Where Our Views of Reality Go Wrong
...evolution of the wave function at face value and denies that it ever collapses. If a quantum coin toss can be either heads or tails, then in the many-worlds scenario,...
Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution’s Speed
Computer scientists are looking to evolutionary biology for inspiration in the search for optimal solutions among astronomically huge sets of possibilities. Creationists love to insist that evolution had to assemble...
‘Lava-Lamp’ Proteins May Help Cells Cheat Death
...have been trying to learn its significance. Now scientists are beginning to understand that evolution has tuned certain proteins to act in aggregate like liquids. Through phase separation, they spontaneously...
Quanta Writers and Editors Discuss Trends in Science and Math
...— there’s an overwhelming amount of evidence for evolution itself. There’s no question that evolution itself occurred, but there are questions about specific mechanisms by which it works. And thinking...
Should Evolution Treat Our Microbes as Part of Us?
...an autocracy of identical cells and more a coalition of multitudes, how can we explain their evolution? Some biologists are calling for a radical upgrade of evolutionary theory, arguing that...
An Italian Cosmologist Who Wanders in Dante’s Dark Wood
...different epochs and tracking its evolution under dark influences. Quanta Magazine spoke with Pettorino over Skype this summer as she helped organize the annual EuroPython conference for users of the...
Solution: ‘How Equality and Inequality Shape Birds and Bees’
Puzzle solvers explored how evolution may have used negative and positive control mechanisms to shape the conflicting parental functions of reproduction and child rearing. Our October Insights puzzle explored how...