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From a pair of simple principles of evolution--chance mutation and natural selection--nature has constructed an almost unfathomable richness of life around us. Despite our scientific sophistication, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Computer scientists have long dreamed of the possibilities of what artificial intelligence ...

Computer technology has had — and will continue to have — a ferocious appetite for energy and material resources. The earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago, and it is believed that life began to ...

THESE images of retro personal computers are a throwback to their humble beginnings, revealing the technological evolution of the devices over their first 25 years. Taken by photographer John Short, ...

Arend Hintze receives funding from NSF and Strength in Numbers Game Company. When designing AI systems that control virtual cars, for example, you might want safer cars that know how to avoid a wide ...

I developed a gametophytic self-incompatibility (SI) model to study the conditions leading to diversification in SI haplotypes. In the model, the SI system is assumed to be incomplete, and the pollen ...

Darwin thought that evolution took place over hundreds or thousands of years and was impossible to witness in a human lifetime. Peter and Rosemary Grant have seen evolution happen over the course of ...