259 | Adam Frank on What Aliens Might Be Like
It wasn’t that long ago that topics like the nature of consciousness, or the foundations of quantum mechanics, or prospects […]
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Biology
251 | Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity
Biological organisms are paradigmatic emergent systems. That atoms of which they are made mindlessly obey the local laws of physics;
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249 | Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds
The study of cognition and sentience would be greatly abetted by the discovery of intelligent alien beings, who presumably developed
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234 | Tobias Warnecke on Cellular Structure and Evolution
Eukaryotic cells manage to pull off a number of remarkable feats. One is packing quite a long DNA molecule, with
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225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
Human beings have developed wondrous capacities to take in information about the world, mull it over, think about a suite
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206 | Simon Conway Morris on Evolution, Convergence, and Theism
Evolution by natural selection is one of the rare scientific theories that resonates within the wider culture as much as
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201 | Ed Yong on How Animals Sense the World
All of us construct models of the world, and update them on the basis of evidence brought to us by
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198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology
The origin of life here on Earth was an important and fascinating event, but it was also a long time
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195 | Richard Dawkins on Flight and Other Evolutionary Achievements
Evolution has equipped species with a variety of ways to travel through the air — flapping, gliding, floating, not to
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194 | Frans de Waal on Culture and Gender in Primates
Photo: Robin Lubbock/WBUR Humans are related to all other species here on Earth, but some are closer relatives than others.
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