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Colliding Black Holes Tell New Story of Stars
...of stellar remnants; how stars’ composition, mass and rotation affect their evolution; how their magnetic fields operate; and more. The work has just begun, but already LIGO’s first few detections...
Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem
...the time-evolution of the other photon. However, an external observer can show that the global entangled state does not evolve.” Other theoretical work has led to similar conclusions. Geometric patterns,...
Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve
...The new evolution experiments are starting to provide insights into how the smallest, simplest organisms might evolve — and how principles of evolution unite all forms of life, even genetic...
Life’s Secrets Sought in a Snowflake
...evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Scientists are gaining insight into the process by re-creating the evolution of multicellularity in the lab. Using an approach known as...
Viruses Would Rather Jump to New Hosts Than Evolve With Them
The discovery that viruses move between species unexpectedly often is rewriting ideas about their evolutionary history — and may have troubling implications for the threat from emerging diseases. When new...
The Elusive Calculus of Insects’ Altruism and Kin Selection
...may help to change the math and shift the debate. In 1964, the evolutionary biologist William D. Hamilton seemingly explained one of the greatest paradoxes in biology with a simple...
‘Broadband’ Networks of Viruses May Help Bacteria Evolve Faster
...may accelerate bacterial evolution to a similar degree. Transduction may in fact be a central force in bacterial evolution. “We had assumed that transduction occurred at rates analogous to dial-up...
Why Do We Die Without Sleep?
...more about the evolutionary history of sleep. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn or your favorite podcasting app, or you can stream it from Quanta. Transcript Steven...
The Viral Paleontologist Who Unearths Pathogens’ Deep Histories
...Calvignac-Spencer’s experience working modern viruses convinced him of the need to reconstruct their evolutionary histories. He now leads the department of pathogen evolution at the Helmholtz Institute for One Health....