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New Support for Alternative Quantum View
...a cloud of probabilities described by a mathematical structure known as a wave function. The wave function, meanwhile, evolves over time, its evolution governed by precise rules codified in something...
Inside the Knotty World of ‘Anyon’ Particles
...for an evolution involving anyons will be different, depending on how their world lines got tangled up over time, the value of the amplitude provides a record of their relative...
How Heat Kills Cells
...it, evidently, the life of the cell. This paradox — that some of the most important proteins seem to be the most delicate — may reflect how evolution has shaped...
A Defense of the Reality of Time
...That gives a constraint on the laws of nature — namely, that they should be laws of temporal evolution. They should be laws that tell you, as time goes on,...
Building Codes for Bacterial Cities
...rules that govern the formation and evolution of biofilms. Those biophysical forces are like universal zoning rules for the biofilm cities: they govern how the inhabitants obtain food and building...
How Bacteria Help Regulate Blood Pressure
...of the body. If in the course of evolution these chemical sensors hooked up to the machinery for manufacturing a hormone rather than to a smell neuron, and if that...
Solution: ‘Triangulation and Motion Sickness’
...and evolutionary biologists, is the ultimate cause? As Anurag Reddy first mentioned, this reaction is hypothesized to take place because the brain “assumes” that the body has been poisoned. In...
To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect
...them and what we gain out of it. For some reason, evolution has found this sensation of free will to be computationally desirable. In what way? You have the sensation...
CRISPR Gene-Editing Pioneers Win Kavli Prize for Nanoscience
...of stories from 2016, scientists aiming to redesign wild populations with CRISPR gene drives may find that evolution resists them at every turn and that controlling the spread of gene...