DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF By Journalists Edward Kane & Marya nne Kane A NEW LAW OF NATURE IDENTIFIED? Source: NASA Deep Space & Stock A team of scientists and philosophers say they have identified a new law of nature that may have ramifications for our understanding of how things in the universe work. Here's what we know: The team is composed of experts from top universities and institutes in the US, including Cornell University and Carnegie Institution of Science Their findings have just been published in the PNAS journal Their key challenge: No physical law can describe the workings of many complex systems in the universe, such as thermodynamics and gravity The New Law answer: Darwin's law of evolution is not limited to the human body and life on Earth, but also to many complex systems that are living and non-living in the universe Put simply: Everything evolves and evolution is a common factor in the universe's compl