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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...
Smarter Parts Make Collective Systems Too Stubborn
...governing styles and systems with natural checks on the emergence of inequality,” Jessica Flack, an evolutionary biologist and complexity scientist at the Santa Fe Institute, wrote in an email. “And...
Doudna’s Confidence in CRISPR’s Research Potential Burns Bright
...power of CRISPR, the precision genome-editing technology she codeveloped. CRISPR “gives us a way to ultimately control the evolution of any organism — including ourselves. It is a profound thing....
The Astronomer Who’d Rather Build Space Cameras
Jim Gunn helped shape the theory of the evolution of the cosmos before building hardware for major observatories like the Hubble Space Telescope. In 1965, when James Edward Gunn was...
Viruses Can Scatter Their Genes Among Cells and Reassemble
...virus do this? Why would you separate your genome? What are the advantages to having these segments that are packaged separately?” asked Mark P. Zwart, an evolutionary virologist at the...
Unexpected ‘Germline’ Plant Cells May Shield New Generations
...proof. Laurence Hurst, an evolutionary geneticist at the Milner Center for Evolution at the University of Bath, also counsels caution because it’s hard to compare mutation rates across groups with...