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Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses
...or two of life. Humpback whales produce only one calf every two or three years and live for decades. The rule of thumb seems to reflect evolutionary strategies that channel...
Standard Model of Cosmology Survives a Telescope’s Surprising Finds
...The cosmos was simpler then, its evolution easier to compare against predictions. Astronomers first tried to see the earliest structures of the universe using the Hubble telescope in 1995. Over...
Can We Program Our Cells?
...evolvable may also make them engineerable. Strogatz (08:53): Uh huh. Interesting, right. So since evolution depends on the ability to, to change — I mean, that’s what the word “evolve”...
In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death
...Swingle, a physicist at Brandeis University. “But then along came black holes.” When an ice cube melts and attains equilibrium with the liquid, physicists usually say the evolution of the...
What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?
...as hard because there’s evolution in space and time, but at least water is water, right? So its properties don’t change. And it’s hard because there is a free surface,...
Cells Across the Tree of Life Exchange ‘Text Messages’ Using RNA
Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between organisms widely separated by evolution. For a molecule of RNA, the...
The ‘Beautiful Confusion’ of the First Billion Years Comes Into View
...co-organized the meeting, said the community is scrambling to absorb both JWST’s data and its implications. Observers see things that are not explained in current theories about the evolution of...
The Thoughts of a Spiderweb
...and Kevin Laland, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Saint Andrews, proposed a bold answer to the question. They argued in a review paper, published in the journal Animal...
With ‘Downsized’ DNA, Flowering Plants Took Over the World
Compact genomes and tiny cells gave flowering plants an edge over competing flora. This discovery hints at a broader evolutionary principle. When people consider evolutionary events related to the origin...