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Why ‘De-Extinction’ Is Impossible (But Could Work Anyway)
...it’s possible,” said Beth Shapiro, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ben Novak, a lead scientist for Revive & Restore, one of...
Puzzling Quantum Scenario Appears Not to Conserve Energy
...before and after the system’s evolution should match. Popescu says the thought experiment, while perplexing, is compatible with this version of conservation of energy. Because the superoscillatory region is such...
Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill
...persists in a noisy environment like that of a living cell. But whereas evolution often finds good solutions to problems, it can miss opportunities. The odd wheel might be a...
An Immunologist Fights Covid with Tweets and a Nasal Spray
...and nasal vaccine development for infectious diseases. Quanta spoke with Iwasaki about the evolution of the pandemic, her efforts to teach the public and why she thinks the nasal spray...
Protein Blobs Linked to Alzheimer’s Affect Aging in All Cells
...said Dario Valenzano, an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Aging and the Leibniz Institute on Aging, both in Germany, who did his postdoctoral training...
The Astrophysicist Who Sculpts Stars Before They Are Born
...In addition to being much farther from Earth than all known exoplanets, this candidate was also detected around a star that’s at a much later stage in its evolution than...
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Two Weeks In, the Webb Space Telescope Is Reshaping Astronomy
...Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. Just weeks into the survey, the team has bagged a handful of galaxies from the universe’s first 500 million years, although Larson and...
The Deep Mystery at the Heart of Life on Earth
As an evolutionary biochemist at University College London, Nick Lane explores the deep mystery of how life evolved on Earth. His hypothesis that life started with primitive metabolic reactions in...