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The asteroid Ryugu contains every letter of the genetic alphabet

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The asteroid Ryugu contains every letter of the genetic alphabet

This is awesome, but does not mean life fell to Earth from space

Is your willpower stronger than a proton beam?

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Is your willpower stronger than a proton beam?

How much are researchers — especially marginalized researchers — expected to endure just to stay in science?

Stingers and spikes across nature have the same shape. Here's why.

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Stingers and spikes across nature have the same shape. Here's why.

Not everything in biology evolved for a purpose.

Networks are math squares disguised as drawings

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Networks are math squares disguised as drawings

This is why neural networks are linear algebra under the hood

A tiny scrap of the genetic molecule RNA can *almost* copy itself.

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A tiny scrap of the genetic molecule RNA can almost copy itself.

Here's what it means for the origin of life

Complexity is less than the sum of its parts, not more

Complexity

Complexity is less than the sum of its parts, not more

Patterns are a shorthand for reality

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Women have no genetic blueprint

Women have no genetic blueprint

Neither do men, but women *really* don't

Does biology play dice?

Does biology play dice?

Some thoughts on nature, nurture, and chance in development

Political (neural) networking

Political (neural) networking

Eddie Lee mapped the political landscape underpinning the increasingly polarized US Senate using the same physics that sparked the AI boom

True fictions

True fictions

The storytelling instinct conjures illusions of consensus in science

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Postcards from the open frontiers of science, by science journalist Elise Cutts