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Why Nature Prefers Couples, Even for Yeast
...think about two biological sexes: male and female. But before the evolution of eggs and sperm — before sex cells began to diverge in size and form — organisms couldn’t...
To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future
...reside. And it remains to be seen whether similar experiments can substantiate claims for predictive coding in higher cognitive processes. Predictive coding “is as important to neuroscience as evolution is...
What Is the Sun Made Of and When Will It Die?
If and when physicists are able to pin down the metal content of the sun, that number could upend much of what we thought we knew about the evolution and...
Mathematics Shows How to Ensure Evolution
...been a cornerstone of evolutionary theory ever since Darwin. Yet mathematical models of natural selection have often been dogged by an awkward problem that seemed to make evolution harder than...
Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait
...102nd birthday. Knowing what in the vast expanse of the genetic code is behind traits can fuel better treatments and information about future risks and illuminate how biology and evolution...
Too Small for Big Muscles, Tiny Animals Use Springs
...the mechanical properties of their body’s structural materials like loaded springs. Evolution’s ingenuity in achieving such performance anticipated the designs that humans would eventually invent for their own tools and...
The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It
...Wired.com. The evolution of magnetic fields in a 10-Megaparsec section of the IllustrisTNG universe simulation. Regions of low magnetic energy appear in blue and purple, while orange and white correspond...
The Physics of Glass Opens a Window Into Biology
...and protein folding. And now it shows up all over the place: in patterns in evolution, in magnets, in the dynamics of social networks. I would say that’s because glasses...
Why Earth’s Cracked Crust May Be Essential for Life
...and a landmass — all of which exchange and circulate material — as a prerequisite for life. Yet understanding how plate tectonics affects evolution — and whether it is a...