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Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level?
...tie it back to that now? What did you get your chip to do? Khemani (26:53): Yeah, so any computation is just a time evolution. OK? But if you want...
Quaking Giants Might Solve the Mysteries of Stellar Magnetism
...is tipped on its side, meaning that the technique could determine the orientation of magnetic fields, which is crucial for updating models of stellar evolution. A second study, led by...
What Is the Nature of Time?
...that radiation tends to go out from things and not come in. There’s this arrow of time associated with evolution of life. And many others you could invent on the...
How Is Science Even Possible?
...like, the reasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology. Because, in fact, the real code is a product of evolution. And there’s nothing special about the number 20. So, this is...
Tracing the Hidden Hand of Magnetism in the Galaxy
...magnetism on the evolution of stars and galaxies, and Clark is one of the scientists spearheading this effort. As the leader of the Cosmic Magnetism and Interstellar Physics group at...
A Bird’s-Eye View of Nature’s Hidden Order
...eagles, for instance, to spot mice from a mile high), and his lab studies the evolutionary adaptations that make this so. Many of these attributes are believed to have been...
Why Are There Two Sexes?
...saw in the May insights column, Can Darwinian Evolution Explain Lamarckism?, evolutionary-fitness calculations over many generations are essentially serial multiplications. And there’s a key difference between asexual and sexual populations....
In Birds’ Songs, Brains and Genes, He Finds Clues to Speech
...of bird genomes — something he’s now helping to do for thousands of vertebrate species as a co-chair of the Genome 10K Project — in order to construct accurate evolutionary...
Solution: ‘How Equality and Inequality Shape Birds and Bees’
Puzzle solvers explored how evolution may have used negative and positive control mechanisms to shape the conflicting parental functions of reproduction and child rearing. Our October Insights puzzle explored how...