Scaling Laws in Enzymes May Help Predict Strange Alien Life “As We Don’t Know It”
The only references we have for “life” are the forms we know on Earth. Astrobiologists suspect that the search for alien life, and even for…
The only references we have for “life” are the forms we know on Earth. Astrobiologists suspect that the search for alien life, and even for…
Archaeologists have long had a dating problem. The radiocarbon analysis typically used to reconstruct past human demographic changes relies on a method easily skewed by…
The diversity of human languages can be likened to branches on a tree. If you’re reading this in English, you’re on a branch that traces…
The history of life on Earth has often been likened to a four-billion-year-old torch relay. One flame, lit at the beginning of the chain, continues…
The best path across the desert is rarely the straightest. For the first human inhabitants of Sahul — the super-continent that underlies modern Australia and…
Are we really living in a polarized world? A mathematical model reveals surprises — particularly about people in the middle. When people talk about the…
If you want to understand an ecosystem, look at what the species within it eat. In studying food webs — how animals and plants in…
As of late May, COVID-19 has killed more than 325,000 people around the world. Even though the worst seems to be over for countries like…
Just as mathematics reveals the motions of the stars and the rhythms of nature, it can also shed light on the more mundane decisions of…