Continents Move, Life Evolves
13.7 billion years of evolution in 85 seconds.
Working together can hasten brain evolution, according to a new computer simulation. When programmed to navigate challenging cooperative tasks, the artificial neural networks set up by scientists to serve as mini-brains “learned” to work together, evolving the virtual equivalent of boosted brainpower over generations. The findings support a long-held theory that social interactions may have…
Messages from the early Universe: Bright and brief, γ-ray bursts hold clues to cosmic history.
“Shocking” find may redraw picture of solar system’s cosmic shield.
People have dreamed of colonizing the Red Planet for more than a century. USA Today takes a look at NASA’s most recent Mars plan for landing astronauts there about 2035. The first outposts could come after 2060. “Mars has captured the human imagination certainly since people started gazing up at the sky,” says NASA science…
We know we got here from somewhere, but who would have suspected it was by way of a fish that used electrical currents to hunt and communicate and locate itself? Author Metanexus Editors
T. Boone Pickens promotes natural gas for energy security and as a bridge to alternatives in this 2012 TED talk.