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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...
To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves
...view, should take a cue from evolutionary biology. “There’s this very famous quote by [the geneticist Theodosius] Dobzhansky: ‘Nothing makes sense in biology except in the light of evolution,’” she...
Cells Use ‘Bioelectricity’ To Coordinate and Make Group Decisions
...effect.” Evolution as Electrician At the University of California, San Diego, the biophysicist Gürol Süel studies electricity in bacterial biofilms, which are collectives composed of single-celled bacteria that can also...
Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place?
...Stocks and flows are just objects and morphisms of a category. The arrangement of boxes and arrows in the diagrams translates into equations describing the system’s evolution. Over the last...
Disorder Drives One of Nature’s Most Complex Machines
...of complex life, evolution created a container for DNA, its most treasured item. A few billion years later, 20th-century microscopists looked at this container — the nucleus — up close...
Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI?
...The public, awed and afraid, marvels at the capabilities of AI. “Four billion years of evolution have demonstrated that anything that wants to survive learns to lie and manipulate,” Harari...
Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI
...genome is no blueprint or algorithm. It is something else. The Old View Given that it’s the product of around 4 billion years of evolution, perhaps it’s not surprising that...
The Thoughts of a Spiderweb
...and Kevin Laland, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Saint Andrews, proposed a bold answer to the question. They argued in a review paper, published in the journal Animal...
With ‘Downsized’ DNA, Flowering Plants Took Over the World
Compact genomes and tiny cells gave flowering plants an edge over competing flora. This discovery hints at a broader evolutionary principle. When people consider evolutionary events related to the origin...