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Planetary Intelligence
Charles Lineweaver
Can the idea of intelligence as a collective property be extended to a planetary scale? A recent paper explores possible trajectories for the long-term evolution of inhabited planets, including our own.
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Long Thoughts
Rufin VanRullen
Were consciousness to be updated only twice per second, as some claim, decisions would take place during an unconscious processing stage, meaning our free will might just be an illusion.
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A Lonely Universe
Charles Lineweaver
Is anybody out there? Likely not. The occurrence of intelligent life on Earth is moot when modeling for its likelihood on other planets.
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Much Ado About Nothing
James Tour
Recent research by Jiménez, Gibard, and Krishnamurthy is further evidence, if any were needed, that eminent synthetic chemists—and scientists in general—remain clueless about life’s origins.
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Metallic Hydrogen
Isaac Silvera & Ranga Dias
For over eighty years, scientists have been trying to produce metallic hydrogen. In that process, diamond anvils must withstand pressures greater than those at the center of the earth—no mean feat.
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Reconstructing Ancestral Proteins
Chase Nelson
As the aphorism suggests, the present is the key to the past. In the study of evolution, ancestral proteins can be inferred from modern ones. But recent work challenges just how much should be inferred.
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Complexity Far from Equilibrium
Michael Engel
Life is a sophisticated example of dynamic self-assembly, which occurs far from equilibrium. Can researchers harness this phenomenon to purposefully create and control more diversely complex behavior?
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The Origin of Novel Genes
Richard Buggs
A series of studies finds that novel genes do not accumulate with Darwinian gradualism in the phylogeny, but can be gained through radical overhauls. How this might be accomplished is a mystery.
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The Internal Language of Proteins
Zachary Ardern
Could proteins share a common language across the major branches of life? A new paper investigates the arrangements of protein domains, considering them as a kind of ordered grammar.
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