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sea turtles
Photo: Sea turtles, by Claudio Giovenzana, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

For Navigating Animals, a Gift from Magnetotactic Bacteria

Nowhere do these scientists explain how bacteria invented magnetotaxis and encoded it into their genes. Read More ›
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Behe: Magnetotactic Bacteria and Other Micro-Wonders

These bugs could point the way to a treatment for cancerous tumors, thanks to their natural ability to maneuver by sensing the Earth’s magnetic field. Read More ›
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Bacteria: The Superheroes of the Microbial World

Learn all about these heroes of the microscopic world — and how they provide compelling evidence for intelligent design. Read More ›
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An Engineering Marvel, Animals Find Their Way by Reading Earth’s Magnetic Field

Intelligent design predicts that organisms will be equipped with complex systems that can take advantage of environmental cues and respond with precision. Read More ›
woolly monkey
Photo: A woolly monkey, by Evgenia Kononova, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Read More ›
Cassini mission to Saturn
Image: Cassini Saturn orbiter via JPL/NASA.

Microbe Performs Rocket Science, Vital for Life on Earth

This little machine, which also knows how to recycle and reuse all its parts in a sustainable “green” way, keeps the nitrogen in balance for the whole planet. Read More ›
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irreducible complexity
Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

Harvard Biophysicist Howard Berg, Flagellum’s Discoverer, Lives On

More than any other scientist, he brought to light the intricate biophysics occurring at the molecular scale in living organisms. Read More ›
ATP Synthase
Image: A scene from "Molecular Machines — ATP Synthase: The Power Plant of the Cell," via Discovery Institute.

ATP Synthase Gets Smarter

Two new papers reveal fine-tuning in the assembly of ATP synthase rotary motors and in its operation under ATP hydrolysis. Read More ›
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Image credit: David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-042.

The New Yorker Takes “A Journey to the Center of Our Cells”

There’s a problem that biologists have long pondered — how do proteins find other proteins within the cell that they are supposed to interact with? Read More ›
hempnettle
Photo: Hempnettle , by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Speciation

Swedish scientist Arne Müntzing used two plant species to make a hybrid that underwent chromosome doubling to produce hempnettle, a member of the mint family. Read More ›

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