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The Future Is Devouring the Present
We are constantly talking about the future of innovation. We fund it, plan it, put it into project titles, strategic plans, and press releases. We build roadmaps, missions, impact indicators, and criteria complicated enough to look scientific even when they are not. And then we forget about the present. To prove that a system is reliable, we are required to comply with…
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Life Needs Rhythm: The THz Dance of Peptide Nanotubes
One thing often recommended in CPR training is to keep the Bee Gees’ Stayin’ Alive in mind: its beat, just over 100 beats per minute, falls within the recommended range for maintaining the correct compression rate during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is a curious example, but it points to something much more serious: in biology, rhythm…
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Among Bonobos, Females Rule Through Alliances
When we picture an animal society, we still tend to imagine it according to a fairly simple scheme: males are bigger, stronger, and therefore dominant. Nature, however, seems to have a certain aversion to overly simple organizational charts. A study published in 2025 in Communications Biology analyzed thirty years of observations from six wild bonobo communities. And the…
