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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...
Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies
...this big data evolution is to teach the computer to take the outputs of the images, go through all those catalogs, and then find us a list of interesting things,...
Why Black Hole Interiors Grow (Almost) Forever
...space is connected to the growth of some kind of complexity. And whether the cosmic clock, the evolution of the universe, is connected with the evolution of complexity. There, I...
Ancient Turing Pattern Builds Feathers, Hair — and Now, Shark Skin
...genes in a bird, could reach across hundreds of millions of years of evolution and exert an identical effect in a shark. Cooper found that activator gene expression plummeted next...
Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many
...unaided eye. But at that time, computer simulations of the evolution of the universe had predicted that the Milky Way’s neighborhood should be bustling with activity — hosting not a...