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The Astrophysicist Who Sculpts Stars Before They Are Born
...In addition to being much farther from Earth than all known exoplanets, this candidate was also detected around a star that’s at a much later stage in its evolution than...
How the ‘Diamond of the Plant World’ Helped Land Plants Evolve
...that molecule during their evolution.) Yet the chemistry behind that ability remained blurry. It would have been poetic if Li’s early work on sporopollenin had used pollen collected from the...
Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth
...doing, their system acknowledges how Earth’s geological development and the evolution of life influence each other. Their new taxonomy, based on an algorithmic analysis of thousands of scientific papers, recognizes...
Protein Blobs Linked to Alzheimer’s Affect Aging in All Cells
...said Dario Valenzano, an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Aging and the Leibniz Institute on Aging, both in Germany, who did his postdoctoral training...
An Immunologist Fights Covid with Tweets and a Nasal Spray
...and nasal vaccine development for infectious diseases. Quanta spoke with Iwasaki about the evolution of the pandemic, her efforts to teach the public and why she thinks the nasal spray...
What Is Life?
...Not think about chemistry or geology or physics or astronomy, biology as separate things. But it’s one interconnected web, in which we see this amazing process of evolution, evolution of...
Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill
...persists in a noisy environment like that of a living cell. But whereas evolution often finds good solutions to problems, it can miss opportunities. The odd wheel might be a...
Reshuffled Rivers Bolster the Amazon’s Hyper-Biodiversity
...he said. The relationship between geographic change and biodiversity is “one of the most contentious topics in evolutionary biology,” said Musher, who did the study as part of his doctoral...
Brain-Signal Proteins Evolved Before Animals Did
...language with which neurons speak to each other. But when evolutionary biologists tried to deduce which animal cells first started to use that language, the murkiness of early animal evolution...