Biologists have discovered that the evolution of a new species can occur rapidly enough for them to observe the process in a simple laboratory flask. In a month-long experiment using a virus... Read more
Eliseo Ferrante and colleagues evolved complex robot behaviors using artificial evolution and detailed robotics simulations. Darwinian selection can be used to evolve robot controllers able... Read more
That humans and the cities we build affect the ecosystem and even drive some evolutionary change in species’ traits is already known. Spiders in cities are getting bigger and salmon in river... Read more
Targeting conservation efforts to safeguard biodiversity, rather than focusing on charismatic species, could make current spending on threatened birds four times more effective, a new study... Read more
Scientists have taken an important step towards the possibility of creating synthetic life with the development of a form of artificial evolution in a simple chemistry set without DNA. A tea... Read more
The speech rate of Cambridge scientist Professor Stephen Hawking has doubled and his productivity increased ten-fold because of new technology. Prof Hawking has revealed how tech giant Intel... Read more
It should help biological scientists to develop crops with significantly improved yields to feed the world How some plant species evolved super-efficient photosynthesis had been a mystery. N... Read more
Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation. He is also one of the worlds leading speakers with a profound... Read more
Danny Hillis outlines an intriguing theory of how and why technological change seems to be accelerating, by linking it to the very evolution of life itself. The presentation technique... Read more
Attempting to create “life” from carbon-free, inorganic chemicals All life on Earth is carbon-based, which has led to the widespread assumption that any other life that may exist... Read more
Can a vision of a more empathic world change the way we behave toward each other? Read more
Dutch biologist Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis has developed the ‘operator hierarchy’ — a system based on the complexity of particles and of organisms, which can predict the next step in e... Read more