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Bacteria’s Immune Sensors Reveal a Novel Way to Detect Viruses
...of these defensive systems have been preserved through evolution and shared among diverse organisms, including humans. But a new study published this month in Science discovered that a family of...
Why and How Do We Dream?
...is there some evolutionary reason for dreaming? Dreams are inherently hard to study. Even with all the advances in science and technology, we still haven’t really found a way to...
What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key.
Supermassive black holes have come to the fore as engines of galactic evolution, but new observations of the Milky Way and its central hole don’t yet hang together. On May...
Electric Fish Genomes Reveal How Evolution Repeats Itself
By studying how electric organs arose in different lineages of fish, scientists gain new insights into a long-standing question of evolutionary biology. Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River,...
A Biochemist’s View of Life’s Origin Reframes Cancer and Aging
...mystery led Nick Lane, a professor of evolutionary biochemistry at University College London, to an unorthodox hypothesis about the origin of life. What if life arose in a geological environment...
The Deep Mystery at the Heart of Life on Earth
As an evolutionary biochemist at University College London, Nick Lane explores the deep mystery of how life evolved on Earth. His hypothesis that life started with primitive metabolic reactions in...
Geometric Analysis Reveals How Birds Mastered Flight
...their mechanical counterparts. “Evolution has created a far more complicated flying device than we have ever been able to engineer,” said Samik Bhattacharya, an assistant professor in the experimental fluid...
Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed?
...happens with age. Evolution didn’t try to make us old. Evolution tried to make us young and healthy. And sometimes that came at a cost. Strogatz (03:56): It’s a fascinating...
Two Weeks In, the Webb Space Telescope Is Reshaping Astronomy
...Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. Just weeks into the survey, the team has bagged a handful of galaxies from the universe’s first 500 million years, although Larson and...