372 | Erik Winfree on DNA Robots and Computers
When we think of computers, we think of machines running on some kind of silicon chips. But the idea is
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Biology
371 | Kyle Harper on How Humans Have Shaped Life on Earth
Humanity is merely one species out of millions living on Earth, but we have a disproportionate impact on the rest
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361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together
One of the characteristics of life is that living organisms gather information and put it to use. Even one of
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357 | Jeff Coller on mRNA, Vaccines, and Bespoke Therapeutics
Messenger RNA (mRNA) plays a literally central role in the functioning of life as we know it, shuttling information back
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352 | Bing Brunton on Connecting the Connectome to the Body
The connectome is the wiring diagram of a brain, a big matrix that tells us what neurons talk to what
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348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency
“Lamarkism” is a term often attached to a seemingly discredited idea in evolutionary biology: that one organism could acquire characteristics
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346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play
Intelligence is a many splendored thing, especially when it comes to comparisons between species. Chimpanzees are better than humans at
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342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind
Evolution with natural selection involves an intricate mix of the random and the driven. Mutations are essentially random, while selection
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334 | Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens
The universe as revealed by physics is objective: it’s out there, existing and behaving in ways that are completely independent
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328 | Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies
Like any machine, bodies occasionally break down, and it’s natural to go in search of a replacement part. Ancient societies
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