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Solution: ‘Darwinian Evolution Explains Lamarckism’
How Darwinian natural selection can produce and sustain a Lamarckian “inheritance of acquired characteristics.” Our May Insights puzzle was inspired by recent discoveries of some rare, intriguing patterns of inheritance...
Dark Matter Recipe Calls for One Part Superfluid
...balked at this idea and just said ‘this is impossible,’” said Tait. But recently, more physicists have warmed to the possibility of superfluid phases forming naturally in the extreme conditions...
Researchers Check Space-Time to See if It’s Made of Quantum Bits
...That’s the theory behind emergent gravity, an idea most recently proposed by Erik Verlinde, a theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam. His theory does away with the need for...
Cell Atlases Reveal Biology’s Frontiers
...microscope: their shapes, sizes, locations and their uptake of staining dyes. Recent decades, however, witnessed a shift to molecular methods that use fluorescently labeled antibodies to target protein markers on...
The Illuminating Geometry of Viruses
...to the common cold. In fact, in recent years, Twarock, Stockley and other mathematicians have helped reveal the assembly secrets of a variety of viruses, even though that problem had...
Solution: ‘Why Are There Two Sexes?’
...from the University of California, Irvine, comments in a recent review on asexual (clonal) reproduction in vertebrates: “Perhaps the maximum well-documented geological age reported for any extant vertebrate clonal line...
Cookie-Cutter Supernovas Might Come in Different Flavors
...boom. But most of what we know is based on guesswork. My recent article on supernovas, “Lucky Break Leads to Controversial Supernova Discovery,” focused on the puzzles surrounding just one...
Beating the Odds for Lucky Mutations
...still in the early days.” This article was reprinted on Wired.com. Budding yeast (S. cerevisiae) grow as colonies on this agar plate. If certain recent research is correct, a mechanism...
For Astronomers, Neutron Star Merger Could Eclipse Eclipse
...Cruz, who refused to discuss any specific results. In recent years, many astrophysicists have become convinced that rare mergers of binary neutron stars offer a solution to multiple open problems...