Life Sciences

Building Smarter Artificial Intelligence By... Shrinking The Body?

driver of brain size is body size, not intelligence at all. And we don’t know why. (See my ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Mar 9 2010 - 2:27pm

Is This How Brain Waves And Neurons Create Consciousness?

lists other papers that add weight to the Radman experiments, one paper going all the way back to 1984. ...

Article - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 15 2010 - 10:43am

Prehistoric Fish Extinction Hit Reset Button On Vertebrate Evolution

present today. Modern vertebrate traits--such as the motif of five-digit limbs that is shared by all ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2010 - 5:40pm

The $60,000 Man

a continually updated pipeline is necessary. There are imperfections in all human genomes published to ...

Article - Michael White - Jun 25 2010 - 3:47pm

Arguing Against The Gene-Centric View

maximize their representation in future generations, while they promptly waste all manner of energy and ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Jul 30 2010 - 8:31pm

Physicists Slice Mysteries Of Myoglobin With Occam's Razor

position of all the proteins as they bind to the oxygen in carbon monoxide. The Vermont scientists' ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2010 - 4:19pm

Science Grows Giant Insects In The Lab- 1950s Science-Fiction Movie Warnings Ignored

adults. In all, ten out of twelve kinds of insects studied decreased in size in lower oxygen atmospheres. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2010 - 11:18am

Why Female Promiscuity Makes Sense – And Yeah Even Swans And Penguins Do It

of one of the oldest strategies in evolution called “bet-hedging” (better know as “don’t put all your ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Dec 7 2010 - 10:14am

Singularity Science Theater 3000: How Reverse-Engineering Postponed Artificial Intelligence

not generally computable by machines at all (it is one of those undecidability results). Understanding ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Dec 2 2010 - 11:23pm

Wild Salmon Numbers Are Dropping, But Science Can Fix It

"In the Pacific Northwest, many hatcheries mark all of their fish by clipping off the adipose fin. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2012 - 6:01am