Computer solves 120-year-old biology problem that had scientists stumped

Can computer software invent scientific theories and ideas as well as crunch numbers? That's the suggestion being put forward by Michael Levin and Daniel Lobo, two computer scientists at Tufts University, Massachusetts in the US, who have programmed a computer to come up with its own scientific hypothesis on one of biology's most well-known mysteries. The mystery in question: how the genes of a sliced-up flatworm regenerate into new organisms.
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