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Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth
...doing, their system acknowledges how Earth’s geological development and the evolution of life influence each other. Their new taxonomy, based on an algorithmic analysis of thousands of scientific papers, recognizes...
How the ‘Diamond of the Plant World’ Helped Land Plants Evolve
...that molecule during their evolution.) Yet the chemistry behind that ability remained blurry. It would have been poetic if Li’s early work on sporopollenin had used pollen collected from the...
Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed?
...happens with age. Evolution didn’t try to make us old. Evolution tried to make us young and healthy. And sometimes that came at a cost. Strogatz (03:56): It’s a fascinating...
Geometric Analysis Reveals How Birds Mastered Flight
...their mechanical counterparts. “Evolution has created a far more complicated flying device than we have ever been able to engineer,” said Samik Bhattacharya, an assistant professor in the experimental fluid...
A Biochemist’s View of Life’s Origin Reframes Cancer and Aging
...mystery led Nick Lane, a professor of evolutionary biochemistry at University College London, to an unorthodox hypothesis about the origin of life. What if life arose in a geological environment...
Electric Fish Genomes Reveal How Evolution Repeats Itself
By studying how electric organs arose in different lineages of fish, scientists gain new insights into a long-standing question of evolutionary biology. Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River,...
What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key.
Supermassive black holes have come to the fore as engines of galactic evolution, but new observations of the Milky Way and its central hole don’t yet hang together. On May...
Bacteria’s Immune Sensors Reveal a Novel Way to Detect Viruses
...of these defensive systems have been preserved through evolution and shared among diverse organisms, including humans. But a new study published this month in Science discovered that a family of...
Record-Breaking Robot Highlights How Animals Excel at Jumping
...humans. “We got muscles from our great-great-great-great-great-great-great backboneless ancestors,” Sutton said. “Changing fundamental properties of bits is really hard for evolution.” Had there been more evolutionary pressure to jump really...