No evolutionary algorithm is superior to a random search. Yet many animals catch prey with what appears to be a random walk through a noisy environment. How do they do it?
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Intelligent-design theorists have long argued that finding complex and specified information (CSI) is the best way to reliably detect intelligent design in nature.
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Following standard procedure, NASA's top Mars scientist has been talking about, yes, the tantalizing possibility of finding evidence of life where once there was water.
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Synthetic geneticist Craig Venter told a packed audience in Dublin that life is DNA-software-driven machinery that operates protein robots.
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It takes a time-lapse moving picture like this (courtesy of NASA and editor Alex Rivest) to get a really clear sense of the film of gases that surrounds our planet.
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