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The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges
...said. Evolution has seemingly equipped army ants with just the right algorithm for on-the-go bridge building. Researchers working to build swarms of simple robots are still searching for the instructions...
Physicists Mourn Joe Polchinski, Developer of Deep Ideas and Paradoxes
...and space-time physics, the evolution of many-body systems, and long-range interactions in string theory. About 20 years ago, astrophysicists discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, driven by...
Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks
...a book for a general audience, Linked, in which he asserted that power laws are ubiquitous in complex networks. “Amazingly simple and far-reaching natural laws govern the structure and evolution...
Evolution Saves Species From ‘Kill the Winner’ Disasters
Modelers find evidence that a combination of competition, predation and evolution will push ecosystems toward species diversity anywhere in the universe. At a meeting of the American Society of Naturalists...
Solution: ‘Triangulation and Motion Sickness’
...and evolutionary biologists, is the ultimate cause? As Anurag Reddy first mentioned, this reaction is hypothesized to take place because the brain “assumes” that the body has been poisoned. In...
In Birds’ Songs, Brains and Genes, He Finds Clues to Speech
...of bird genomes — something he’s now helping to do for thousands of vertebrate species as a co-chair of the Genome 10K Project — in order to construct accurate evolutionary...
Tissue Engineers Hack Life’s Code for 3-D Folded Shapes
...which researchers could then look for in developing organisms. They can also start to experimentally investigate questions relevant to evolution: Why do certain structures form as they do, and what...
With ‘Downsized’ DNA, Flowering Plants Took Over the World
Compact genomes and tiny cells gave flowering plants an edge over competing flora. This discovery hints at a broader evolutionary principle. When people consider evolutionary events related to the origin...
How Triangulation Leads to Knowledge
...empty space. And of course, the same thing happens in science. The theory of biological evolution is so well established because the evidence for it from so many independent sources...