PC Gamer

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In Other Waters shrinks the entirety of an alien ocean into one interface. You’re the AI that accompanies xenobiologist Ellery Vas on her dives into the oceans of Gliese 667Cc in search of life that may help sustain mankind, while trying to find out

Chat

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Although his study of finches became more famous, what type of bird is thought to have originally inspired Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theories? To find out, solve the puzzle… Add a letter anywhere in each of the boxed-off words to fit the clue, eg

Nautilus

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Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog. Ants, wasps, bees, and other social insects live in highly organized “eusocial” colonies where throngs of females forgo reproduction—usually viewed as the cornerstone of evolutionary

Popular Science

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It's a common misconception that humans evolved from apes. In fact, we both evolved from a common ancestor—and we're both still evolving. Depositphotos The nice thing about bacteria is that they multiply really fast. This is inconvenient if they happ

Nautilus

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What’s wrong with us? Not us Democrats, Republicans, or Americans. Rather, what’s wrong with our species, Homo sapiens? If human beings are as Hamlet suggested, “noble in reason, infinite in faculty,” then why are we facing so many problems? In many

NPR

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Journalist and author Scott Carney talks about his new book, "The Wedge: Evolution, Consciousness, Stress, and the Key to Human Resilience."

Nautilus

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Turn back the clock to 1965. Science appeared to be marching forward at an unrelenting pace. Biochemists had cracked the genetic code (how DNA translates into proteins), inspiring Life magazine to envision “superbabies with improved minds and bodies.

Nautilus

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In less than five milliseconds, a Hydromantes salamander can launch its tongue—including the muscles, cartilage, and part of its skeleton—out of its mouth to snag a hapless insect mid-flight. Among amphibians, it is the quick draw champ. Frogs and ch

Futurity

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From the smallest proteins to entire ecosystems, nature might be the most sophisticated engineer on Earth. Researchers like Rama Ranganathan are trying to uncover the basic design principles that govern biology and apply them through engineering. He

Trade-A-Boat

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A new study has shown that shark and ray evolution can occur faster than previously thought without geographic separation or spatial barriers. Dr Jonathan Sondoval-Castillo and Professor Luciano Beheregaray studied how conditions in the Gulf of Cali

Nautilus

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“Add little to little and there will be a big pile.” —Ovid When we build complex technologies, despite our best efforts and our desire for clean logic, they often end up being far messier than we intend. They often end up kluges: inelegant solutions

Nautilus

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Have you heard the one about the biologist, the physicist, and the mathematician? They’re all sitting in a cafe watching people come and go from a house across the street. Two people enter, and then some time later, three emerge. The physicist says,

PC Powerplay

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DEVELOPER JUMP OVER THE AGE • PUBLISHER FELLOW TRAVELLER • RELEASE SPRING 2020 www.jumpovertheage.com In Other Waters shrinks the entirety of an alien ocean into one interface. You’re the AI that accompanies xenobiologist Ellery Vas on her dives int

Nautilus

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Amoebas are puny, stupid blobs, so scientists were surprised to learn that they contain 200 times more DNA than Einstein did. Because amoebas are made of just one cell, researchers assumed they would be simpler than humans genetically. Plus, amoebas

India Today

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Evolution is the cornerstone of growth. In art, as in life, one must evolve to better understand the space one occupies in this world. Building on this principle, Panerai has taken a signature aesthetic and evolved it such that it straddles the spiri

Indianapolis Monthly

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A minor miracle took place in our office this month: The team here, led by deputy editor Daniel Comiskey, was able to pull together the “Best of Indy” issue (p. 59), our annual celebration of the latest and greatest the city has to offer. “Closing” a

Futurity

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The evolution of learning could help lay groundwork for better artificial intelligence. “We know that all organisms are capable of some form of learning, we just weren’t sure how those abilities first evolved. Now we can watch these major evolutionar

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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I was fascinated to read about the grass in South Africa’s Cape Province (March, p50) that has somehow managed to produce seeds that mimic the look and scent of antelope droppings! Now I’m no expert but I’ve never seen a plant that has eyes and a nos

Futurity

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Evolution, it seems, is not very good at multitasking, according to new research that involved purposely messing with its delicate machinery. “I’m fascinated with life, and that’s why I want to break it,” says coauthor Betül Kaçar, an assistant profe

Futurity

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There are three lines of evidence suggesting humans are still evolving, says evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon in the run-up to International Darwin Day. Monday marks the 209th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the “Father of Evolution.”

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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Fossils provide a series of snapshots of evolution rather than a continuous record. This can make things tricky to interpret. If something disappears from the fossil record, for example, one might assume that it went extinct, when it really just evol

Futurity

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New research featuring the genetic sequences from 17,000 individual New World birds in 173 species, sheds light on how new species arise. An implicit assumption in the discipline of speciation biology is that genetic differences between populations o

Australian Men's Fitness

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■ Eimele porridge provides real health food solutions while maintaining vital nutrients. Developed by Simon Hill, Eimele’s Formulator and Creator of Plant Proof, Eimele’s extensive range of porridges offer delicious options to get you through the col

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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The biologist shares his story of documenting wildlife in the Sahara. “Deserts are hugely underrated – yet they are as equally deserving of the attention lavished on tropical rainforests,” he says. See p40 The family life of great crested grebes has

Australian Geographic

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HUMANS AND fish evolved from a common ancestor. Early humans appeared on the planet just 6 million years ago and modern humans not until about 195,000 years ago. By contrast, the genealogy of fish goes back more than 500 million years. They’ve been e

Futurity

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In 1859, Charles Darwin included a novel tree of life in his trailblazing book on the theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species. Now, scientists want to update the idea. “The goal is to transform a two-dimensional tree into one that is multi-dime

Nautilus

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Remember when everything was “2.0?” Michelle Obama was Jackie Kennedy Onassis 2.0? Facebook was considered an example of Web 2.0? We all got what it meant and it hung in the air, or in “cyberspace,”—another faddish word—for half a decade until it was

Popular Science

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BABIES! Biologists tagged more than 2,600 red squirrel pups to monitor their growth and survival rates. These cuties are about 25 days old. Ben Dantzer The early bird gets the worm, and the early squirrel gets the... home? It’s not as quippy, but res

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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The evolutionary changes we see occurring over a few decades are modest: a cricket that evolves to be silent is still a cricket. When evolution unfolds over longer timescales – thousands or millions of years – it can lead to much larger changes in ph

Futurity

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A pair of master genes control the complex traits in butterfly wings—one for colors and iridescence and the other for stripe patterns, two new papers suggest. “It seems like a small number of genes disproportionately drive evolution over and over aga