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Seeing the Beautiful Intelligence of Microbes
...co-director of the Microbial Sciences Initiative, has led a laboratory that has studied these phenomena. In more recent years, it has also developed techniques for visualizing them. In the photographic...
How to Triumph and Cooperate in Game Theory and Evolution
...set of strategies upon the use of which, players cannot further improve their winnings. His work continues to appear in important new research today, as described in Erica Klarreich’s recent...
Galactic Glow, Thought to Be Dark Matter, Now Hints at Hidden Pulsars
...of the Fermi collaboration, thus validating Hooper’s once-“amateurish” claims. Second, all that extra radiation is probably not due to dark matter. A number of recent studies have convinced many researchers...
New Model Warns About CRISPR Gene Drives in the Wild
...technology for modifying genomes has taken off in recent years, one daring potential application has caught the attention of conservation scientists, policymakers, public health workers and others: It could be...
Bacteria Sacrifice DNA Repair for Better RNA
...trade-offs. Every trait an organism inherits may have benefits and drawbacks; what matters to natural selection is whether the trait is positive or negative on balance. But in a recent...
How Bacteria Help Regulate Blood Pressure
...the microbiome to our vital statistics and health. While vague statements about the microbiome’s effect on health have become commonplace in recent years, the field has moved beyond simply making...
Is a Bigger Genetic Code Better? Get Ready to Find Out
...if they can. With recent innovations in gene editing, it may seem as if the field of synthetic biology is just starting to make strides into science-fiction territory. But for...
Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start
...and maybe livable world as far back as 4.3 billion years ago. In recent years, fossils in ancient rock bolstered the zircons’ story of calmer climes. The tornadic microfossils of...
The Argument Against Quantum Computers
...a firm set up by Devoret and two of his Yale colleagues). Other nations — most notably China — are pouring billions of dollars into the sector. Quanta Magazine recently...