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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...
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”...
In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death
...Swingle, a physicist at Brandeis University. “But then along came black holes.” When an ice cube melts and attains equilibrium with the liquid, physicists usually say the evolution of the...
What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?
...as hard because there’s evolution in space and time, but at least water is water, right? So its properties don’t change. And it’s hard because there is a free surface,...
Cells Across the Tree of Life Exchange ‘Text Messages’ Using RNA
Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between organisms widely separated by evolution. For a molecule of RNA, the...
The ‘Beautiful Confusion’ of the First Billion Years Comes Into View
...co-organized the meeting, said the community is scrambling to absorb both JWST’s data and its implications. Observers see things that are not explained in current theories about the evolution of...
The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA
...to understand biological sequence,” said the computer scientist Brian Hie, who heads the Laboratory of Evolutionary Design at Stanford University, based at the nonprofit Arc Institute. This was the impetus...
The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’
...an Atmosphere Stripped of its fanciful name, the cosmic shoreline might not seem like a particularly interesting boundary. But planets are enormously complicated, long-lived objects. Simple questions about their evolution...
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...