Tag: New Scientist
Important Medical Effects but Modest Mutations
It’s important to remember that Darwinian factors are indeed real and can have important medical effects, but they only modify life around the edges.
DNA of Things: Embedding Machines with Replication Data
In 1901, divers brought up from an ancient shipwreck the first part of the Antikythera mechanism made by Greek inventors.
Brainwashed — For Your Own Good
An insidious kind of brainwashing goes on without your awareness, day and night. And you couldn’t live without it.
Give Up Pets to Save the Planet!
Cats are, we are told sternly, an unsustainable “environmental vice that we must confront”!
How Butterflies “Evolve” by Design
Biologists have wondered how the patterns on butterfly wings change.