Month: January 2017
Digging Deep in Biology: “Things Get Even More Complicated When You Look Closer”
Yesterday started out as an ordinary Tuesday. Then I set out to read a recent paper published in the journal Cell.
How Physicists Learned to Love the Multiverse
The Principle of Plenitude, an idea with a long history, holds that everything that can exist will exist.
Newly Classified Cambrian Creature Underlines the Mystery of Living Fossils
A study in Nature finds that hyoliths are more like brachiopods than molluscs.
Turn Over Child-Raising to a Computer?
Mattel’s new “smart baby monitor,” their digital nanny dubbed Aristotle, leaves me flummoxed.
UCLA Geochemist: Life Arose “Almost Instantaneously” on Early Earth
For biological origins, science continues to narrow the available time windows.