Attempts to recreate the emergence of life by mixing and reacting basic chemicals are wrong-headed, argue two US scientists, who instead propose that it is the informational architecture of a system’s chemical networks that allows it to gain causal purchase over its components and become alive. The researchers behind the new paradigm – Paul Davies, […]
Scientists have directly manipulated the activity of individual neurons to give flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a report in the journal Cell. “Flies have the ability to learn, but the circuits that instruct memory formation were unknown,” said researcher Gero Miesenböck, of the University of Oxford. “We were […]
Writing in Physical Review Letters, Dartmouth College researchers have proposed a new way of creating a reproduction black hole in the laboratory, albeit on a much-tinier scale than their celestial counterparts. The researchers say that creating a tiny quantum sized black hole would allow them to better understand what physicist Stephen Hawking proposed more than […]
