Archive of BEACON Press

2012 Media Coverage

• 12/29: Science News Top 25 Stories of 2012: Stores worth losing sleep over [23. Evolving E. coli: 25-year experiment sees real-time selection]
• 11/29: NSF Discoveries: Studying evolution in action [PDF]
• 11/23: NPR: Experiments that keep going and going and going [PDF] [AUDIO]
• 11/22: Lansing State Journal: MSU experts study mystery of ornamental animals [PDF]
• 10/31: Digital Nibbles (Radio interview with Risto Miikkulainen about BotPrize, starting at 13:42)
• 10/26: Futurity: In warm oceans, phytoplankton may thrive near poles [PDF]
• 10/26: RedOrbit: Warming oceans will play major role in less phytoplankton diversity [PDF]
• 10/26: Climate Central: Rising ocean temps threaten the ocean food chain [ClimateCentral102612_WarmingOceans]
• 10/25: Science NOW: Oceans getting too hot to handle? [PDF]
• 10/25: New Scientist: Tropical plankton exodus by 2100 [PDF]
• 10/14: AIGameDev: Making AI that plays like humans (Winning the BotPrize) (VIDEO, Subscription only)
• 10/5: Utica Community Schools Newsletter: Hands on Science: Two UCS students take part in prestigious summer study program [PDF]
• 10/1: Futurity: Virtual gamer bot beats Turing’s ‘human’ test [PDF]
• 9/30: Newsy: Video game bots act like real humans (VIDEO)
• 9/28: New Scientist: Mimicry beats consciousness in gaming’s Turing test [PDF]
• 9/27: BBC News: A new computer game ‘bot’ acts just like a real person [PDF]
• 9/26: The 2K BotPrize [PDF]
• 9/26: ABC News: Evolution: Scientists grow 56,000 generations in lab to watch [PDF]
• 9/20: Salon: In experiment scientists watched evolution happen [PDF]
• 9/20: RedOrbit: Evolution of Escherichia coli helps researchers understand how organisms evolve new functions [PDF]
• 9/19: Nature News & Views: Evolution: How the unicorn got its horn
• 9/19: Ars Technica: Researchers track evolution through snapshots of 40,000 generations [PDF]
• 9/19: Washington Post: Evolutionary innovation caught in the act [PDF]
• 9/19: The Loom: The birth of the new, the rewiring of the old [PDF]
• 9/19: Science Daily: How organisms evolve new functions: Evolution is as complicated as 1-2-3 [PDF]
• 9/9: Telegraph: Hyenas are as bright as primates, research shows [PDF]
• 9/4: PBS: Faced with a steel box, hyenas try to think outside it
• 9/1: Museum magazine, Sept-Oct issue (American Alliance of Museums): Work in Progress: Exhibiting Present-Day Evolution [PDF]
• 8/30: RedOrbit: What would happen if computer viruses were like digital peacocks? [PDF]
• 8/29: NSF News from the Field: Computer viruses could take a lesson from showy peacocks [PDF]
• 8/29: Science Daily: Computer viruses could take a lesson from showy peacocks [PDF]
• 8/23: Nature News: Physicists suggest selfishness can pay [PDF]
• 8/15: Nature Research Highlights: Curious hyenas crack puzzles [PDF]
• 8/10: Futurity: ‘Unnecessary’ steps help smooth evolution [PDF]
• 8/10: ScienceDaily: Why do organisms build tissues they seemingly never use? [PDF]
• 8/9: Astrobiology Magazine: Division of labor and multicellular life [PDF]
• 8/9: RedOrbit: Hyenas solve problems faster when they think outside the box [PDF]
• 8/9: Sigma Xi SmartBrief: Hyenas can solve problems, study says
• 8/9: Futurity: Innovation gives some hyenas an edge [PDF]
• 8/8: ScienceDaily: Hyenas that think outside the box solve problems faster [PDF]
• 8/8: LiveScience: Creative hyenas make better problem solvers [PDF]
• 8/7: Ecology Global Network: Division of labor offers insight into the evolution of multicellular life [PDF]
• 8/7: ScienceDaily: Division of labor offers insight into the evolution of multicellular life [PDF]
• 8/2: New York Times: Olympic athletes and their parents: Your competitive drive vs. your child’s (column by Judi Brown Clarke) [PDF]
• 7/27: Futurity: Studmuffin beetles boast bigger horns [PDF]
• 7/27: International Business Times: Beetle horns get size enhancement from insulin: study [PDF]
• 7/26: USA Today: Antlers make the beetle [PDF]
• 7/26: Discover Magazine Blogs – Not Exactly Rocket Science: How the rhino beetle got its horn (and why it cannot lie) [PDF]
• 7/26: ScienceDaily: Big horns trump smooth pickup lines every time [PDF]
• 7/23: The State News: Nobel winner speaks at Wharton [PDF]
• 6/20: LiveScience: Robotic fish patrol waters for pollutants [PDF]
• 6/18: The State News: Conference exposes young women to STEM fields [PDF]
• 6/4: Bloomberg TV: Robotic Fish Search Water for Pollutants (VIDEO)
• 6/1: Microbe Magazine: Card trick: the Black Queen from Hearts helps explain reductive evolution in life [PDF]
• 5/29: Great Lakes Echo: Water-monitoring robofish almost ready to patrol Great Lakes [PDF]
• 5/14: LiveScience: Microbes use “Hearts” card game trick to freeload [PDF]
• 5/11: RedOrbit: Queen of spades key to new evolutionary hypothesis [PDF]
• 5/10: NSF Discoveries: Queen of spades key to new evolutionary hypothesis [PDF]
• 5/2: Huffington Post: A black queen in a blue ocean: How microbes evolve to depend on each other [PDF]
• 4/27: RedOrbit: Robots That Swim, Drive And Play Soccer; Virtual Humans And Real Storm Chasers Are Part Of The Action At Science And Engineering Festival [PDF]
• 4/3: Environmental Monitor: Back to school: Robotic fish make a splash [PDF]
• 4/2: Science 2.0: Evolved Dependency: The Black Queen Hypothesis in Evolution [PDF]
• 3/28: io9: Researchers describe a new evolutionary theory: The Black Queen Hypothesis [PDF]
• 3/27: New Scientist: Black Queen tells microbes to be lazy [PDF]
• 3/22: Research.gov: Robotic fish could monitor water quality [PDF]
• 1/30: Futurity: After four mutations, new virus attacks [PDF]
• 1/27: RedOrbit: MSU researchers show how viruses evolve, and in some cases, become deadly [PDF]
• 1/27: ScienceDaily: How viruses evolve, and in some cases, become deadly [PDF]
• 1/27: Carl Zimmer, New York Times: In real time, a virus learns a new way to infect [PDF]
• 1/26: The Scientist: The making of a trait [PDF]
• 1/26: Science Podcast: an interview with Justin Meyer about the experimental coevolution of a virus and its host
• 1/26: LiveScience: Viral attacks on bacteria reveal a secret to evolution [PDF] (reposted on MSNBC, among others)
• 1/26: LiveScience VIDEO: Virus rapidly evolves to fight bacteria

• 12/1: Microbe Magazine: Predicting plasmid promiscuity could help fight resistance [PDF]
• 11/17: RedOrbit: Digital organisms shed light on mystery of altruism [PDF]
• 11/9: RedOrbit: KGI researchers publish key paper on evolution of cooperation [PDF]
• 10/29: LiveScience Behind the Scenes: Digital Organisms Shed Light on Mystery of Altruism [PDF]
• 10/18: Lansing State Journal: Researchers at MSU Study Altruism [PDF]
• 10/6: Meet the Scientist: Carl Zimmer interviews Charles Ofria
• 9/28: [MSU] State News: BEACON Center Publishes 1st Report [PDF]
• 9/23: US News & World Report: New MSU Research Sheds Light on How We Become Altruistic [PDF]
• 9/22: Science Daily: Research Sheds Light on Altruism [PDF]
• 9/21: RedOrbit: New MSU research sheds light on how we become altruistic [PDF]
• 8/4: New Scientist: Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence [PDF]
• 2/17: WKAR Radio (East Lansing NPR Station): Michigan State Wins NSF ‘Beacon’ Grant [PDF]
• 2/17: Michigan Radio (Ann Arbor NPR Station): Evolutionary Research At Michigan State University [PDF]
• 2/17: [MSU] State News: MSU awarded $25M grant to establish new science center [PDF]
• 2/17: Spartan Podcast: BEACON on Spartan Podcast [PDF]