33 years ago, the theoretical biologist Robert Rosen offered an answer to the question “Is life computable?”
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A golden new era of business is within our reach — provided that we harness AI’s potential while mitigating the risks.
How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains.
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There are 40 billion billion black holes in the universe. Here’s how our Solar System stacks up against ten of them.
Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
From the laying out of the body plan to the organization and functioning of our nervous system, cells rule gene expression and make us who and what we are.
Once activated, the CRISPR-Cas12a2 system goes on a rampage, chopping up DNA and RNA indiscriminately, causing cell death.
The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
The giant impact theory suggests our Moon was formed from proto-Earth getting a Mars-sized strike. An exoplanet system shows it’s plausible.
The Earth that exists today wasn’t formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we’re quite a latecomer.
Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.
These 5 human development principles could completely change the way we think about learning and potential.
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How do scientists measure and define life in the natural world? Dr. Lee Cronin gives us a definition, in 4 minutes:
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When we’re stressed, our hormones and nervous system produce all sorts of odors.
Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury “only” reaches 800 °F at its hottest. Venus is always hotter, even at night.
Laser-guided lightning systems could someday offer much greater protection than lightning rods.
Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter.
Imagine going on a tour through the human circulatory system as a tiny cell. That is just one example of education in the metaverse.
It’s knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it’s not magic that powers AI though; it’s just math and data.
From landscaped gardens to road systems, the Persians were among the first to create many things we still enjoy today.
Profluent’s new platform is like ChatGPT for genetic technology.
The Santa Fe Institute is a cradle of modern research. Our host Kmele meets some of the brilliant minds who work there.
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It could perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy.
Physicists have increasingly begun to view life as information-processing “states of matter” that require special consideration.
Some scientists think we should allow our bodies to more harmlessly live with pathogens until they’re cleared from our systems.
To prevent overloading the memory system, the brain may have a mechanism that tosses out certain types of memories.
Boys are four times as likely as girls to develop autism. Girls are nearly twice as likely to experience depression. The immune system may be a player in these and other brain-health disparities.
Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
Earth is the Solar System’s only known inhabited planet. Could Venus, if its phosphine signal is real, be our second world with life?
Tech designed to fuse atoms might be able to clean up space, too.