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Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait
...102nd birthday. Knowing what in the vast expanse of the genetic code is behind traits can fuel better treatments and information about future risks and illuminate how biology and evolution...
To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future
...reside. And it remains to be seen whether similar experiments can substantiate claims for predictive coding in higher cognitive processes. Predictive coding “is as important to neuroscience as evolution is...
A Traveler Who Finds Stability in the Natural World
...whose origins stretched back to the French Revolution. Dirty Math In the 1790s Gaspard Monge had a problem. He was a mathematician tasked by Napoleon with figuring out how to...
A Math Theory for Why People Hallucinate
...to biology and evolutionary ecology. Roughly 10 years ago, he and his then graduate student Tom Butler were pondering how the spatial distribution of predators and prey changes in response...
‘Functional Fingerprint’ May Identify Brains Over a Lifetime
...because those higher-order control regions are in essence what make us who we are. Indeed, brain areas like the frontal and parietal cortices developed later in the course of evolution,...
New AI Strategy Mimics How Brains Learn to Smell
...hierarchical way, leading to a revolution in machine learning and AI research. To teach these nets to recognize objects like faces, they are fed thousands of sample images. The system...
How Nature Defies Math in Keeping Ecosystems Stable
...probably exchanging resources? At present, there is not much of a null hypothesis, according to Allesina. In a recent paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution, he and his collaborators asked...
Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem
...“It is something you could start thinking about, if all goes well, at the next stage of the evolution of quantum computers.” And given how quickly the field is now...
In the Ticking of the Embryonic Clock, She Finds Answers
...from retroviral integration. That seems surprising — that viral DNA would play such an important role so early in development. Over the course of evolution, viruses have been in us...