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Chaos Researchers Can Now Predict Perilous Points of No Return
...network could predict the evolution of stationary chaotic systems (which don’t have tipping points) stunningly far into the future. The network relied only on records of the chaotic system’s past...
How Do Fireflies Flash in Sync? Studies Suggest a New Answer.
...until now. It’s not yet clear why nature would favor the evolution of this hodgepodge state of synchronization rather than a more uniform one. But even basic synchrony has always...
Physicists Rewrite a Quantum Rule That Clashes With Our Universe
...configuration has been “encoded” in a larger, eight-digit state. That evolution resembles a unitary one, in that there are two possibilities at the beginning and two at the end. But...
Geneticist Awarded Nobel Prize for Studies of Extinct Human Ancestors
Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studying our extinct ancestors’ DNA. The geneticist and evolutionary anthropologist Svante Pääbo has won this year’s...
Machine Learning Highlights a Hidden Order in Scents
...to explain these irregular cases, Wiltschko and his team considered the requirements that evolution might have levied on our senses. Each sense has been tuned over millions of years to...
How Genes Can Leap From Snakes to Frogs in Madagascar
...the world, the scientists reported in April in a paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution that this gene has somehow traveled from snakes to frogs at least 50 times all...
How Supergenes Fuel Evolution Despite Harmful Mutations
...closer the resemblance, the more potent the protection. What Bates and many later evolutionary biologists couldn’t explain was how this mimicry was possible. Getting the right shades of aquamarine and...
She Finds Keys to Ecology in Cells That Steal From Others
...organisms that eat their neighbors to get ahead. But in the systems studied by the theoretical ecologist Holly Moeller, an assistant professor of ecology, evolution and marine biology at the...
Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses
...or two of life. Humpback whales produce only one calf every two or three years and live for decades. The rule of thumb seems to reflect evolutionary strategies that channel...