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The Elusive Calculus of Insects’ Altruism and Kin Selection
...selection acts mostly within groups, with between-group selection reserved only for very special cases. In recent years, however, several groups of researchers have demonstrated that kin selection and multilevel selection...
Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos
...recent successes in artificial intelligence — to predict the future evolution of chaotic systems out to stunningly distant horizons. The approach is being lauded by outside experts as groundbreaking and...
Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses
...releasing a free-floating message for all to read. More recently, however, scientists discovered that cells could package their molecular information in what are known as extracellular vesicles. Like notes passed...
Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve
...no fourth-line vaccine is waiting. Worse, in recent decades, the virus has become more deadly. Read and others, including researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, posit that the virus...
Stellar Disks Reveal How Planets Get Made
...of light hiding inside. As recently as May 6, for example, an international team reported signs of a giant planet lurking in a system called CS Cha. But for now...
Cores From Coral Reefs Hold Secrets of the Seas’ Past and Future
...Often it is the most recent 100 years, but not always. Fossilized corals may contain sequences of growth rings that date back as far as the last interglacial period, more...
Why Can’t We Find Planet Nine?
Astronomers suspect that there’s a large planet hiding out in the distant fringes of the solar system. At a recent workshop, they brainstormed ways to coax it into view. Many...
To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future
...tools have only recently made it possible to start directly testing specific mechanisms of the hypothesis, and some papers published in the past two years have provided striking evidence for...
Three Major Physics Discoveries and Counting
...a collision that produces a single Higgs boson. What else have you been working on? My group and I were major contributors to the very recent measurement of Higgs bosons...