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Complexity is all about the evolution of the possible. I initially planned a simple account of the physical properties of DNA but I soon realised that that the concepts of DNA as an informational codescript, the nature of information itself and the rise of biological complexity are intextricably intertwined. The final incarnation is very far from the book I'd initially conceived but is an amalgam of an intellectual journey that took me to places of whose existence I was previously unaware.
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Four years ago, when I began to write From Crust to Core, A chronicle of deep carbon science, the astrophysicist in me looked forward to documenting the story of how Earth’s carbon originated long ago in stellar explosions. Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe. On Earth it is ranked only fifteenth […]
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Wallace Arthur, author of Understanding Evo-Devo, sheds light on the way in which radically new animal forms arise in the course of evolution
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In 2016, a major environmental crisis occurred: much of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef bleached and died. The Barrier Reef is one of the natural wonders of the world, home to thousands of species, which together create a dazzling array of colour and movement. So to see the Reef suffer in this way is a genuine […]
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The first three editions of Measuring Behaviour were co-authored by Patrick Bateson, known as Pat to his family and friends, and his former graduate student Paul Martin. I had a very special relationship with Pat. Not only was he my father, but I have followed him into the same academic discipline, becoming the second Professor […]
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Brian Kennett and Andreas Fichtner met when Brian was visiting the University of Munich from Australia on a Humboldt Research Award. They have since collaborated on a number of papers, mostly involving some aspect of seismic waveform inversion for the determination of structure. In the nearly twenty years since the publication of Brian’s two volume […]
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How to transition to a zero carbon economy in a timely and fair fashion is one of the greatest challenges the world faces. Bill Gates spelt out his vision of how to do it in his recent book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. The answer for him is technological innovation and getting ideas to […]
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Wallace Arthur, author of The Biological Universe, examines the link between the flight of the Mars helicopter Ingenuity and the possible existence of past life on the red planet.
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