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Bacterial Clones Show Surprising Individuality
...on an important evolutionary process. “This has been a relatively overlooked phenomenon,” said Hesper Rego, a microbiologist at the Yale School of Medicine. “The idea that microbial populations could evolve...
Where Quantum Probability Comes From
...constitutes a “measurement”? When exactly does it occur? Why are measurements seemingly different from ordinary evolution? Dynamical-collapse theories offer perhaps the most straightforward resolution to the measurement problem. They posit...
Inherited Learning? It Happens, but How Is Uncertain
...of inheritance and an explanation for evolution, enduring even after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Then experimental tests, the rise of Mendelian genetics, and the wealth of...
Playing Hide-and-Seek, Machines Invent New Tools
...from chess to StarCraft II; it’s also an adaptation that seems likely to confer an evolutionary advantage. So it went with hide-and-seek. Even though the AI agents hadn’t received explicit...
To Decode the Brain, Scientists Automate the Study of Behavior
...of neurons that controlled those states. The work on motion tracking and behavioral analysis that made these findings possible represents a technological revolution in the study of behavior. It also...
Axions Would Solve Another Major Problem in Physics
...thought about the rotating axion field and the cyclical evolution of θ, “we realized that the rest of it is almost automatic,” Co said. “We just do the computation to...
Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math.
...to describe the evolution of physical systems, it makes clear, according to Gisin, that “time really passes and new information is created.” Moreover, with this formalism, the strict determinism implied...
The Physicist Who Slayed Gravity’s Ghosts
...in the bedroom and we talked for two hours, de Rham’s expressive and energetic hand gestures articulating the evolution of the cosmos and occasionally colliding with the webcam. The interview...
Can Vaccines for Wildlife Prevent Human Pandemics?
...wild population on their own? Some scientists think so. Recently in Nature Ecology & Evolution, a pair of biologists at the University of Idaho argued for that approach. The idea...