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A New Proof Smooths Out the Math of Melting
...to mean curvature flow. Should a singularity appear, the flow can go on — making it possible for mathematicians to assess the surface’s evolution. Over the past few decades, mathematicians...
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex
...be widespread. In this new view, biological evolution appears not as a unique process that gave rise to a qualitatively distinct form of matter — living organisms. Instead, evolution is...
Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
...that support vertebrate intelligence evolved independently in birds and mammals. It’s hard to track down which path evolution took, given that any trace of the ancient ancestor’s actual brain vanished...
Introducing The Quanta Podcast
...now. We do a lot of stories, as you said about molecular biology, about evolution. What are the rules through which evolution through natural selection works? So, we kind of...
Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans?
...evolution of cooperation, from a biological perspective. I’m not even sure that values are outside of science. I guess I’m espousing what the critics call scientism. LEVIN: Mmmm… uh-oh… STROGATZ:...
How Much Energy Does It Take To Think?
Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our most complex organ. You’ve just gotten home from an exhausting day....
When Did Nature Burst Into Vivid Color?
...former postdoctoral adviser John Wiens, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Arizona, combed through research encompassing hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary history to offer a scientific answer...
RNA Is the Cell’s Emergency Alert System
...and explains to the cell what’s going on in words. They don’t use that kind of language. One of the things about biology is that evolution has coupled a particular...
Why Did The Universe Begin?
...are pretty rare. The explanation is that in between the ground zero level of physics and the advanced sort of life level, there are many layers of evolution. Many improbabilities,...