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Rumbles on Mars Raise Hopes of Underground Magma Flows
...slowly.” We have almost no certain knowledge about the inside of worlds, including our own. That’s a problem. “With few exceptions, the thermal evolution of a planet governs everything,” said...
Eve Marder on the Crucial Resilience of Neurons
...work. So, biology has to be able to tolerate diversity, and that probably it uses diversity in all kinds of ways as grist for evolution. Marder: Right. Exactly. So, that’s...
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Chaos Researchers Can Now Predict Perilous Points of No Return
...network could predict the evolution of stationary chaotic systems (which don’t have tipping points) stunningly far into the future. The network relied only on records of the chaotic system’s past...
How Will the Universe End?
...(03:05) And I think that it’s, it’s just something that’s always been fascinating to me every time I’ve encountered it. Just seeing the discussions around how the ultimate evolution of...
What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells
...evolution exploits in creating new species. However, what sets the tempo of an organism’s growth has remained a mystery. “Our knowledge of what controls developmental timing has really lagged behind...
Bats Use the Same Brain Cells to Map Physical and Social Worlds
New research in social bats raises the intriguing possibility that evolution can program the brain’s “place cells,” which are typically associated with location, to encode all kinds of environmental information....
How Will We Know We’re Not Alone?
...just part of the process of evolution of a planet? KALTENEGGER: That’s a great question, and that’s exactly how I started my career in this field, actually. I wanted to...
Oxygen and Stem Cells May Have Reshaped Early Complex Animals
...rapid proliferation and diversification of animal life that, half a billion years ago, forever changed Earth’s evolutionary landscape. In spite of Påhlman’s initial reservations, however, the pair has collaborated over...
Chronological Clues to Life’s Early History Lurk in Gene Transfers
https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12211 To date the branches on the evolutionary tree of life, researchers are looking at horizontal gene transfers among ancient microorganisms, which once seemed only to muddle the record. Scientists...