biological evolution
05/10/2017 - 12:10
Grey considers aging an engineering problem. The human body is a machine, he told me in the following interview, and like any machine, it... →
08/09/2017 - 11:36
What’s replicated isn’t matter (made of atoms) but information (made of bits) specifying how the atoms are arranged. When a bacterium makes... →
11/08/2017 - 12:37
In Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle’s 1963 novel upon which the films are based, space traveler Ulysse Mérou is stranded on a... →
27/04/2017 - 13:30
There is a growing cohort of well-credentialed scientists investigating radical life extension: geneticist Craig Venter, one of the first... →
25/11/2016 - 18:40
The human brain has nearly 100,000 times as many neurons as the bee brain, yet the rudiments of many of our most valued behaviours can be... →
06/10/2016 - 14:13
But while some scientists have praised the study, others have labelled it a dismal travesty. Life expectancy has been increasing... →
04/09/2016 - 12:16
Over several months, the team had trained the dogs to lie in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner and remain completely... →
09/07/2016 - 12:37
Sex is unknown in bacteria – the simplest and most ancient living cells on Earth – that reproduce by simply splitting into two. Evolving... →
21/11/2015 - 14:10
Romanes waited until his dog was distracted by another hound, then darted away in a mad zigzag. When the dog returned, it realised Romanes... →
05/11/2015 - 15:29
Bumpology
The story starts with a collection of dozens of tiny ceramic heads – all different shapes and sizes – kept at the Science Museum... →
21/03/2014 - 15:51
By comparison to the world of physics, the methods and theory of comparative genomics and evolutionary biology are used to investigate the... →