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How Einstein Lost His Bearings, and With Them, General Relativity
...— describe how the shape of space-time evolves in response to the presence of matter and energy. To describe that evolution, you need to impose on space-time a coordinate system...
How the DNA Computer Program Makes You and Me
...humans, is much smaller than the X chromosome, as it has been losing genes over evolutionary time (note that the genes are still around: They have just migrated to other...
The Physics of Glass Opens a Window Into Biology
...and protein folding. And now it shows up all over the place: in patterns in evolution, in magnets, in the dynamics of social networks. I would say that’s because glasses...
The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It
...Wired.com. The evolution of magnetic fields in a 10-Megaparsec section of the IllustrisTNG universe simulation. Regions of low magnetic energy appear in blue and purple, while orange and white correspond...
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,...