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Teeth May Reveal a Multi-Day Biological Clock
...Colorado, Boulder, who has studied body-size evolution and who now studies growth in humans and nonhuman primates. “I think he is one of those people that is ahead of his...
Is It Friday the 13th Again?
...tackled questions related to time: How much time does it take for a gene’s rate of evolution to slow to a virtual standstill? How many half-lives does a pound of...
Solution: ‘Friday the 13th’
...come close to the year when Charles Darwin published what the philosopher Daniel Dennett has called “the greatest idea that anyone ever had” — the theory of evolution by natural...
Swirling Bacteria Linked to the Physics of Phase Transitions
...course, to imagine that bacterial patterns represent evolution’s handiwork. “Since the laws of physics allow you to essentially get patterns for free, it’s attractive to think that biology could take...
Bongard Problems and Scientific Discovery
...evolution, accomplishes them automatically. Like the process of scientific discovery, Bongard problems and code-breaking games like Mastermind require the use of inductive reasoning. This generally means going from the particular...
How Superfluid Dark Matter Mimics an Old Idea About Gravity
...Trieste, Italy, who has also worked on superfluid dark matter models. Khoury’s model does that. The Andromeda galaxy as seen in ultraviolet light by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer telescope. NASA/JPL-Caltech...
In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium
...equilibrium concept, which earned him a Nobel Prize in economics in 1994, offers a unified framework for understanding strategic behavior not only in economics but also in psychology, evolutionary biology...
First Support for a Physics Theory of Life
...the properties of those objects to influence their reproductive rates. Once you have those two conditions, you’re basically in a situation where Darwinian evolution kicks in, and to biologists, that’s...
A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right
...their evolution (as we did for pro-ISIS groups) from now on, can we foresee the growth to an outburst like a future Charlottesville, but elsewhere in the U.S.? I am...