4+ hour, 2+ min ago  (668+ words) Editor's note: We are delighted to offer this excerpt from Chapter 5 of Winston Ewert's new book,The Heavens, the Waters, and the Partridge: The Historical Interaction of Faith and Science Before Modern Science. Dr. Ewert is a Center for Science…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (396+ words) Editor's note: We are delighted to offer this excerpt from Chapter 3 of Winston Ewert's new book,The Heavens, the Waters, and the Partridge: The Historical Interaction of Faith and Science Before Modern Science. Dr. Ewert is a Center for Science…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (164+ words) The beauty and value of Kan'et al.s accomplishment lie in the enzyme-promoted formation of'an unnatural bond. This closes a crucial'gap between biological and chemical catalysis.'The impact is unforeseeable, but it seems that we are a big step closer…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (281+ words) In the "just so" stories of the Darwinian narrative, these engineering solutions simply evolved. They emerged and got conserved. Voila! Source When left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward death, not life. So what does it…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (181+ words) Watch: Stephen Meyer in Cambridge, at the Doors of the Cavendish Lab'Science and Culture Today Well, this is the coolest thing I've seen all day. Stephen Meyer was in England, and a friend videoed him outside the legendary Cavendish Laboratory…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (288+ words) While amino acids can be produced in experiments or found on meteorites, they are often consumed by side reactions that create non-living tar. Source By now, you may have heard about some of the problems facing the field of origin-of-life…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (760+ words) The patterns of disparity observed during the Cambrian pose two unresolved questions. First, what evolutionary process produced the gaps between the morphologies of major clades? Second, why have the morphological boundaries of these body plans remained relatively stable over the…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (228+ words) When biologists use principles of engineering to study living systems, they can gain a richer, deeper understanding of how and why life works. Source Recurring Engineering Logic and Common Design Patterns In this episode, Dr. Jonathan McLatchie explains that researchers…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (677+ words) Here I will endeavor to point out that structure-function relationships, just like most dualities themselves, are fictions of language, a'fa'on de parler. They exist for the sake of description only, but do not actually contain the full meaning of the…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (477+ words) A team of scientists from China leveraged AI to design an enzyme that facilitates recycling of polyurethane! This work was published in the journal'Science. What is polyurethane and where is it used? It's a type of plastic and it is…...