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Solution: ‘Natural Law and Elegant Math’
...together without loose ends. Evolution has made us cognitive beings by giving us small internal rewards whenever we solve a puzzle — a very effective strategy. So was Wigner right?...
Priya Natarajan on Black Holes and Mapping the Universe
...with Martin Rees, and on trying to understand how to integrate the growth formation and evolution of black holes into the larger picture of the assembly of galaxies and structure...
Immune Cell Assassins Reveal Their Nurturing Side
...it up. Metchnikoff didn’t immediately assume that these phagocytes are specialized for disease fighting and pathogen removal alone. Trained as an evolutionary biologist, he knew that simple organisms generally had...
Machine Learning Takes On Antibiotic Resistance
...much more effective.” To this end, they use computer models to quickly simulate evolutionary changes, including the effects of mutation, selection and genetic recombination, with feedback loops of that sequence...
Brian Keating’s Quest for the Origin of the Universe
...much more panoramic, it’s so much more beautiful and deep than the numbers that we’ve come to find with such accuracy and precision, that describe its composition and evolution, that...
A Digital Locksmith Has Decoded Biology’s Molecular Keys
...depends on the structure beneath a protein’s surface. “What evolution is probably optimizing for is precisely this induced fit,” said AlQuraishi. “What’s surprising about [MaSIF] is that even with this...
The Two Forms of Mathematical Beauty
...a group of organisms, not just the most beautiful butterflies or birds, and discovered the general theory of evolution. Chemists classified all the elements, going beyond the easy bling of...
This Cosmologist Knows How It’s All Going to End
...of dark matter, the physics of the early universe, the evolution of galaxies and the nature of black holes. But she’s most widely known as a science communicator and social...
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Why Is Glass Rigid? Signs of Its Secret Structure Emerge.
...said. Bapst and his colleagues first used the results of simulations to train their AI system: They created a virtual cube of glass comprising 4,096 molecules, simulated the evolution of...