314 | Karen Lloyd on the Deep Underground Biosphere
There are living creatures dwelling deep below the surface of the Earth, as deep as we are able to drill. […]
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Biology
313 | Eric Topol on the Changing Face of Medicine and Aging
Medical science is advancing at an astonishing rate. Today we talk with leading expert Eric Topol about two aspects of
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312 | Thomas Levenson on The Mutual History of Humans and Germs
The germ theory of disease is a crowning achievement of science, up there with modern physics, continental drift, and evolution
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303 | James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System
A typical human lifespan is approximately three billion heartbeats in duration. Lasting that long requires not only intrinsic stability, but
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302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution
Randomness plays an important role in the evolution of life (as my evil twin will tell you). But random doesn’t
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299 | Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life
Living organisms seem exquisitely organized and complex, with features clearly adapted to serving certain functions needed to survive and procreate.
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296 | Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution
Biological evolution via natural selection is a simple idea that becomes enormously complicated in its realization. Populations of organisms are
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294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life
Erwin Schrödinger said that the important characteristic of life is that it “goes on doing something… for a much longer
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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging
Aging and death happen to the best of us, but there are increasing efforts to do something about it. That
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286 | Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the Emergence of Replication and Computation
Understanding how life began on Earth involves questions of chemistry, geology, planetary science, physics, and more. But the question of
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