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How Big Data Carried Graph Theory Into New Dimensions
...binary connections alone. Recent progress in the field shows how to move forward. Consider trying to forge a network model of parenting. Clearly, each parent has a connection to a...
Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare
...among scientists that animals similar to us — the great apes, for example — have conscious experience, even if their consciousness differs from our own. In recent years, however, researchers...
Rumbles on Mars Raise Hopes of Underground Magma Flows
Small and cold, Mars has long been considered a dead planet. But a series of recent discoveries has forced scientists to rethink how recently its insides stopped churning — if...
How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain
...from Antarctica. It’s uncertain how much of this was due purely to the social isolation of the experience. But the results are consistent with evidence from more recent studies that...
The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution
...of energy depends on the extent of our knowledge.” In recent years, a revolutionary understanding of thermodynamics has emerged that explains this subjectivity using quantum information theory — “a toddler...
Wanted: More Data, the Dirtier the Better
...a recent experiment, he’d gotten a list of some 3,000 genes of interest, and he was trying to figure out what they were doing. One day I saw him going...
How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation
...physics, theoretical computer science, information theory, evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Can you walk us through an example? In a recent paper, your group looked at communication between neurons in...
Interspecies Hybrids Play a Vital Role in Evolution
...whether you’re talking about viruses, plants, bacteria or animals.” Lions and Tigers and Jaguars, Oh My! Most recently, signatures of hybridization have turned up in studies on the evolution of...
Tinkertoy Models Produce New Geometric Insights
...in that space?” and “How complicated are the equations required to describe a given shape in space?” Now, in a pair of recent papers, mathematicians have moved closer to developing...