evolution

By the early ’90s, ecologists had amassed sufficient time-series information units on species populations and sufficient computing energy to check these concepts. There was only one drawback: The chaos didn’t appear to be there. Solely…

There are three ways to die: of injury, disease, or old age. Over time, humans have gotten better at avoiding the first two, but as we get older, senescence—the gradual deterioration of bodily functions with age—is inevitable. Some…

From the window of a passenger plane flying over the Amazon, the view is breathtaking. “It’s just miles across of river and river islands,” said Lukas Musher, a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University’s Academy of Natural…

A mosquito watches you through a lattice of microscopic lenses. You stare back, fly swatter in hand, closely tracking the bloodsucker with your humble single-lens eyes. But it turns out that the way you see each other—and the world—may…

Billions of years ago, some unknown location on the sterile, primordial Earth became a cauldron of complex organic molecules from which the first cells emerged. Origin-of-life researchers have proposed countless imaginative ideas about…

Information empowers. And also, its power rings genuine in every aspect of life. Even as we ride what Alvin Toffler calls the Third Wave, the strength of information has been unleashed, including never before. How to find the Best evolution…