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Standard Model of Cosmology Survives a Telescope’s Surprising Finds
...The cosmos was simpler then, its evolution easier to compare against predictions. Astronomers first tried to see the earliest structures of the universe using the Hubble telescope in 1995. Over...
Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle
...those are really the same thing because they have a shared evolutionary origin.” The technique is ushering in a new era for evolutionary neuroscience. “It’s shown [us] new cell populations...
How Will the Universe End?
...(03:05) And I think that it’s, it’s just something that’s always been fascinating to me every time I’ve encountered it. Just seeing the discussions around how the ultimate evolution of...
Can We Program Our Cells?
...evolvable may also make them engineerable. Strogatz (08:53): Uh huh. Interesting, right. So since evolution depends on the ability to, to change — I mean, that’s what the word “evolve”...
Dinosaur Bone Study Reveals That Not All Giants Grew Alike
A survey of prehistoric bones reveals that T. rex and some of its cousins had more than one way to reach enormous sizes. Evolution may have preserved that variation in...
How a DNA ‘Parasite’ May Have Fragmented Our Genes
...evolution of genomic complexity. One example involves a theory of intron evolution developed by Michael Lynch of Arizona State University in 2002. Models suggest that in species with small breeding...
Animal Mutation Rates Reveal Traits That Speed Evolution
...can begin to answer questions about which traits most influence mutation rates and the pace of evolution. “There are things that affect the rate of evolution, [but] we don’t know...
Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity
...is now an evolutionary microbiologist at the University of Amsterdam, set out to find what they hoped would be an evolutionary missing link. Biologists had long used genetic data to...
How Pools of Genetic Diversity Affect a Species’ Fate
...save the species,” Steiner explained. “But that’s not enough if you think about it. When you talk about species, you’re not considering the whole evolutionary potential of all the different...