“It’s absolutely fascinating to see Darwinian principles at work here. This community of people has developed their own biologically unique response to a truly terrible epidemic. The fact that this genetic evolution has happened in a matter of decades is remarkable.” Professor John Collinge, Director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Prion Unit  A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic [...]

Visual Tool for Blind Spots in the Universe Information field theory enables astronomers, medical practitioners and geologists to look into places where their measuring instruments are blind. In order to infer missing data in an astronomical measurement with more than just imagination, physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics have formulated a theory of spatial perception called information field theory.The distribution of matter, for example, in a section of the universe can be partially [...]