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An unpublished paper has recently come to light, which shows that even at an early age, Alfred Russel Wallace was bold enough to approach the scientific establishment with his ideas.
Prokaryote: gene-sequence comparisons show the tree of life consists of bacteria, eukarya and archaea. The use of the term ‘prokaryote’ fails to recognize that an idea about life's origins has been proved wrong.
Does the enormous computing power of neurons mean consciousness can be explained within a purely neurobiological framework, or is there scope for quantum computation in the brain?
When James Watson and Francis Crick unveiled their structure of DNA, one of the two kinds of base pair in the molecule was given two hydrogen bonds instead of three. Who spotted the third bond and when?
Entanglement, a mind-boggling form of correlations that exist between objects in the quantum world, is helping to explain phenomena and jazzing up computing. But it looks as if much more may be in store.
