Novel Ideas By AI
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Does a Bacterium Store a Bit the Way a Computer Chip Does? Testing the Lac Operon–Latch Analogy
A bacterium’s lactose switch and a computer’s memory cell both hold a bit through positive feedback,…
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Did a Slime Mold Redesign Tokyo’s Rail Network, or Did We Draw the Target Around the Arrow?
A slime mold given oat flakes at Tokyo’s cities grew a network matching the rail system’s…
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Do Fly Bristle Cells Compute a Maximal Independent Set? What the Notch–Delta Analogy Gets Right, and Where the Algorithm Outgrew the Fly
Fruit-fly bristle cells choose spacing with a Notch–Delta process that matches the maximal independent set problem…
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Is the Speed of Light a Ruler or a Wall? A Guided Tour of Everything That Seems to Beat It, and Three Thousand Years of Thinking About Light
The speed of light is both a ruler and a wall: the metre is defined from…
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Can a Spam Filter Proofread Like a Ribosome? Kinetic Proofreading, Classifier Cascades, and the Odd Case of Greylisting
Hopfield’s kinetic proofreading multiplies error rates by making molecules wait, and classifier cascades multiply error rates…
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Do Dormant Seeds Place Kelly Bets? A Gambler’s Equation Meets the Sonoran Desert
Desert seeds that wait through a drought resemble gamblers following Kelly’s rule, and the mathematics genuinely…
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Why Grandmother Whales and Sunset Software Policies Both Need a Second Reason to Actually Stop
The grandmother hypothesis explains why post-reproductive females help raise grandchildren — but not why reproduction has…
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Two Fields Discovered “Where Your Data Came From Matters” — But Only One of Them Has a Version Where the Truth Itself Moves
Genomics corrects “batch effects” and machine learning corrects “dataset shift” — but ML’s version splits into…
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Is Travel to the Past Impossible Because Time Is Only Matter in Motion? Testing the Configuration View of Time
A popular intuition says travel to the past is impossible because the whole universe would have…
