Tag: Washington University
Europa Clipper: The Moon Mission Making Waves
Astrobiologists hope this mission will help answer a couple of big questions in astrobiology.
Embrace the Chaos: How Cells Harness Disorder for Function
In three classes of examples, cells are shown to manipulate chaotic forces toward functional purposes.
Sociovirologists Say Viruses Can Cheat, Cooperate
What does it mean to say that a defective string of genes’s behavior could be self-defeating? Or self-preserving? Where did the “self” come in?
Sleeping and Waking — A Designer’s Gift
Why is sleeping, in which the conscious mind/brain is asleep, categorically more restful and recuperative to the body than merely lying down?
Noise Cancellation: A Remarkable Design Solution in Biology
The principle behind this biological methodology can be extended to every case in biology where an organism needs to discriminate signals from self.