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Time’s Arrow Traced to Quantum Source
...several years studying the evolution of particles in terms of shuffling 1s and 0s. He found that as the particles became increasingly entangled with one another, the information that originally...
A Fundamental Theory to Model the Mind
...frequent smaller collapses wherever he looked. His 1996 book, “How Nature Works,” extended the concept beyond simple sand piles to other complex systems: earthquakes, financial markets, traffic jams, biological evolution,...
Does Competition Drive Diversity of Species?
...It became a textbook example of an evolutionary tenet known as “character displacement.” In Darwinian evolution, organisms compete for resources, and the winners get to pass their genome to future...
Big Bang Secrets Swirling in a Fluid Universe
...matter in the universe as a peculiar kind of fluid. They have calculated properties that characterize the universe’s behavior and evolution, including its viscosity, or resistance to deformation by sound...
Chemists Seek Possible Precursor to RNA
...the outcome of biological evolution and a largely undescribed stage of chemical evolution.” My Grandfather’s Ax Scientists have long considered alternative chemistries for RNA, synthesizing molecules with alien components that...
A New Physics Theory of Life
Jeremy England, a 31-year-old physicist at MIT, thinks he has found the underlying physics driving the origin and evolution of life. Save Why does life exist? Popular hypotheses credit a...
Under Pressure, Does Evolution Evolve?
...bacteria could somehow direct their evolution, “choosing which mutations will occur,” the authors wrote — a modern molecular biologist’s version of Lamarckian theory. Susan Rosenberg, a biologist at Baylor College...
A Missing Genetic Link in Human Evolution
...unusual pattern, repeated in different parts of the genome, is found only in great apes — bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and humans. “I think it’s a missing piece of human evolution,”...
Could Knots Unravel Mysteries of Fluid Flow?
...tying a shoelace.) Investigating knotted fluids both on paper and in the lab could provide a much richer picture of how these tangles, once formed, affect the future evolution of...