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‘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...
Cosmic Triangles Open a Window to the Origin of Time
...time evolution, this for me was the clearest instance of the emergence of time,” said Baumann, who is now a professor at the University of Amsterdam. In this and a...
Secrets of Math From the Bee Whisperer
...insight into the evolution of numerical ability. Is this evolution divergent? Convergent? Parallel? There is a big debate about numerical ability in animals. One side argues that numerical cognition —...
‘Radical Change’ Needed After Latest Neutron Star Collision
...aspects of binary star evolution are poorly understood, including how the stars exchange mass and get close enough to merge. “We know a great deal about stellar formation and evolution,...
What Might Be Speeding Up the Universe’s Expansion?
...of radiation emitted shortly after the Big Bang. This radiation reveals the precise ingredients of the early universe. Cosmologists plug the ingredients into their model of cosmic evolution and run...