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Emily Singer

The Legendary Biologists Who Clocked Evolution’s Astonishing Speed

A Map of the Brain Could Teach Machines to See Like You

The Mystery of the Minimal Cell, Craig Venter's New Synthetic Life Form

New Clues to the Mystery of How Our Brains Keep Time

What Yeast Reveals About the Origins of Multicellular Life

Chemists Invent New Letters for Nature's Genetic Alphabet

A Surprise for Evolution in a Giant Tree of Life

Machine Intelligence Cracks Genetic Controls

Elusive Form of Evolution Seen in Social Spiders

If the World Started Over, Would Life Evolve the Same Way?

Competition May Not Be the Driving Force of Species Diversity After All

The Molecule That Tells You When You've Used Too Much Sriracha

Self-Assembling Molecules Like These May Have Sparked Life on Earth

Does Evolution Evolve Under Pressure?

Brain Stimulation May Induce the Human Will to Persevere

The Unlikely Network at the Core of Your Brain's Internet

Biology's Big Problem: There's Too Much Data to Handle

AI Could Help Predict Which Flu Virus Will Cause the Next Deadly Human Outbreak

On the Microbial Frontier, Cheaters Rarely Prosper

New Algorithms Force Scientists to Revise the Tree of Life