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Photo: Plume from the Hunga-Tonga volcano, via NASA / Kayla Barron, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Information Spreads in the Atmospheric Highway

Genetic information gets around. In the troposphere — much higher above land than expected — bacteria and fungi hitch a ride to faraway places. Read More ›
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Stuart Burgess Overturns the Claim that the ACL Is Poorly Designed

The explanation for ACL injuries is not poor design. Burgess noted in my interview with him that ACL tears were far less frequent in past centuries. Read More ›
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Watch: “The Most Technologically Advanced Place on Planet Earth”

Join renowned biochemist Michael Behe as he explores the mystery of how cells repair themselves. Read More ›
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Photo: Ikaria, Greece, by Leeturtle, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Longevity as Evidence of Original Design

A general principle for any designed system is that it functions optimally when it is used or able to perform in the way it was originally designed. Read More ›
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Comet Caps a Year of Natural Beauty

I took a set of images of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS last night, which was the first sighting I had of it. It's visible to the unaided eye. Read More ›
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Appreciating the Molecular Detail of ATP Synthase

Here, I wish to highlight this animation, again narrated by Harvard’s Professor Robert Lue. Read More ›
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Watch: Animation Reveals the Intricacies of the Electron Transport Chain

In short, the electron transport chain involves the flow of electrons through a respiratory chain. Read More ›
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Forrest Mims on Winning the Rolex Award (And How You Can Too!)

By the early 1990s, Mims had built a reputation as one of America’s foremost citizen scientists. Read More ›
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The Incredible Krebs Cycle

Earlier, I wrote about various obstacles to the evolutionary origins of the glycolytic pathway. As noted previously, the end result of glycolysis is pyruvate. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Avalon Explosion and the Power of Maybe

While evolutionary biology has no explanation even according to the authors themselves, intelligent design theory does. Read More ›

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