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Early Life in Death Valley
...organisms that he says blanketed the continents during the Precambrian. “A petrified bedbug would end the dispute,” he said with a grin. Video: During a recent trip to the Black...
Inside the Din, Cells Fight Noise With Noise
...life and death. In recent years, scientists discovered that the inside of the cell is a surprisingly noisy place, overturning a long-held assumption that its inner workings are regular and...
The Game Theory of Life
...“More recently, there have been some interesting, and much sounder, ideas, which make a link between fields that are addressing a similar issue: Statistical physics and evolutionary biology both try...
The New Science of Evolutionary Forecasting
...travels in a new direction, it alters the landscape yet again. Recently, Doebeli and Iaroslav Ispolatov, a mathematician at the University of Santiago in Chile, developed a model to understand...
In Search of Dark Stars
...in the notorious “Chicago mafia” of pioneers in the new field of particle astrophysics. Recently she has proposed that astronomical objects powered by dark matter, called dark stars, may have...
I Contain Multitudes
...the wrong chromosome number is not a good thing,” she said. Christopher Walsh of Harvard Medical School recently found that many cells in healthy brains have at least one big...
The Thermodynamic Theory of Ecology
...wrote a recent review that describes the technique’s history, explains that MaxEnt is a way to make sure that conclusions drawn from small amounts of information are logically consistent. “The...
‘Big Bang Signal’ Could All Be Dust
...during a recent talk in Chicago. Theorists like Silverstein most want to know whether r is greater or less than 0.01, the crossover point between categories called large-field and small-field...
Brain’s Positioning System Linked to Memory
...navigates through space. In 1971, O’Keefe discovered special neurons called place cells, which fire whenever an animal is in a certain location. More recently, the Mosers identified grid cells, which...