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Searching Symbols for the Rules of Change
...has focused on understanding dynamical systems. Could you explain what those are? I’m thinking about abstract systems and studying their evolution to understand what kind of predictions can be made...
Contemplating the End of Physics
...of physics they will have to obey. But all of this is now changing. Nature’s agonizingly slow process of discovery, driven by cosmological and biological evolution on time scales of...
A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics
...— so much so, in fact, that they reverse the quantum evolution of the entire system. They undo the friend’s measurement, erase the friend’s memory, and restore the particle to...
Catherine Dulac Finds Brain Circuitry Behind Sex-Specific Behaviors
...do not have this organ for sensing pheromones. However, the areas of the brain controlling essential behaviors are thought to be conserved in evolution in all vertebrates, particularly the parts...
The New History of the Milky Way
...mapped the movement of just thousands. The data brought a previously static swath of the galaxy to life. “Gaia started a new revolution,” said Federico Sestito, an astronomer at the...
The Hard Lessons of Modeling the Coronavirus Pandemic
...pandemic response — that is, until everything went wrong. Their typical areas of research include building models for condensed matter physics, viral evolution and population dynamics, not epidemiology or public...
Growing Inventory of Black Holes Offers a Radical Probe of the Cosmos
...holes form, and why they merge. This growing black hole inventory could also offer a novel way to probe cosmological evolution — from the Big Bang through the birth of...
Bonnie Bassler on Talkative Bacteria and Eavesdropping Viruses
...evolution, right? To — and certainly they get more complicated and possibly more fascinating in higher organisms, but we think we’re really learning something about: What does it take to...
Why Extraterrestrial Life Might Not Be So Alien
The zoologist Arik Kershenbaum of the University of Cambridge discusses convergent evolution, animal communications and why life throughout the universe may have certain common features. Emily Buder/Quanta Magazine; Luke Wolagiewicz...