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Bacteria Sacrifice DNA Repair for Better RNA
Preserving its DNA ought to be a cell’s top priority. But bacteria slow their DNA repair to a crawl in favor of proofreading gene transcripts. Evolution is a game of...
A Thermodynamic Answer to Why Birds Migrate
...Evolution, those wild differences in migration patterns — and the resulting distribution of bird species around the world — reflect the efforts of those species to maintain an optimal energy...
What Is the Sun Made Of and When Will It Die?
If and when physicists are able to pin down the metal content of the sun, that number could upend much of what we thought we knew about the evolution and...
An Italian Cosmologist Who Wanders in Dante’s Dark Wood
...different epochs and tracking its evolution under dark influences. Quanta Magazine spoke with Pettorino over Skype this summer as she helped organize the annual EuroPython conference for users of the...
‘Lava-Lamp’ Proteins May Help Cells Cheat Death
...have been trying to learn its significance. Now scientists are beginning to understand that evolution has tuned certain proteins to act in aggregate like liquids. Through phase separation, they spontaneously...
New Quantum Paradox Clarifies Where Our Views of Reality Go Wrong
...evolution of the wave function at face value and denies that it ever collapses. If a quantum coin toss can be either heads or tails, then in the many-worlds scenario,...
The Year in Biology
...known to science. Because of evolution, we can see how the web of life also extends back through time, with genomic connections that link very different organisms through common ancestry....
The Universal Law That Aims Time’s Arrow
...of its evolution should have exhibited fractal-like universal scaling. “You find that when this big condensate decayed into the particles that we observe today, that this process can be very...
Nobel Prize Awarded for Discoveries on How Cells Adapt to Oxygen
...ability to form highly specialized tissues, maintain stem cell populations, and expand into new habitats. How organisms deal with oxygen, in fact, has been a pivotal factor in evolution for...