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Quanta Magazine » Biophysics
1y ago
By studying how electric organs arose in different lineages of fish, scientists gain new insights into a long-standing question of evolutionary biology ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Biophysics
1y ago
Partnerships between engineers and biologists have begun to reveal how birds evolved their superb maneuverability ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Biophysics
1y ago
New experimental results simultaneously advance and challenge the theory that the brain’s network of neurons balances on the knife-edge between two phases ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Biophysics
1y ago
During development, cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing, which could hint at a more general principle of life ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Biophysics
1y ago
Animals sculpt the optical properties of their tissues at the nanoscale to give themselves “structural colors.” New work is piecing together how they do it ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Biophysics
1y ago
Plants ignore the most energy-rich part of sunlight because stability matters more than efficiency, according to a new model of photosynthesis ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Biophysics
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Biomechanical interactions, rather than neurons, control the movements of one of the simplest animals. The discovery offers a glimpse into how animal behavior worked before neurons evolved ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Biophysics
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The optical properties of mitochondrial bundles in the retina may improve how efficiently the eye captures light ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Biophysics
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Researchers say we’re on the cusp of “GoPro physics,” where a camera can point at an event and an algorithm can identify the underlying physics equation ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Biophysics
1y ago
Physicists have solved a key problem of robotic locomotion by revising the usual rules of interaction between simple component parts ..read more