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Photo credit: Copyright © 2005 David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How We Bite with Apatite: The Wonders of a Hard Mineral

Explore the features of a remarkable mineral erupted from volcanoes that is found in our teeth. How did it get there? Read More ›
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Image credit: Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Exposing the Heart of Neo-Darwinism 

At complete rest, for your organs and tissues to work properly, your heart must pump out about five liters of blood per minute. Read More ›
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Photo: Curiosity rover on Mars, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

Rare Earth: How Vital Minerals “Evolve”

It's intriguing that life as we know it depends on a seemingly un-natural distribution of minerals. Read More ›
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Photo: Greenland Ice Sheet.

Glaciers Enhance the Biosphere — By Design

Glacial meltwater performs unexpected and surprising roles that benefit life on earth. Read More ›
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Walnuts: Intelligent Design in a Nutshell — Literally

Walnut shells are found to create 3-D puzzles with tissues that even toothy squirrels can’t easily crack. Read More ›
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Photo: A sample of cerium, a rare earth element, by Jurii [CC BY 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Rare Earth Elements and Intelligent Design

Can we explain human technology merely by supernova explosions and blind chance? In rare earth elements, we find hints of a better explanation. Read More ›
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Image credit: Illustra Media, from Origin:  Design, Chance and the First Life on Earth.

Membrane Channels Show Astonishing Specificity

The “selectivity filters” in membrane channels of living cells are able to discriminate between very similar molecules or atoms using complex mechanisms. Read More ›
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In Purpose & Desire, Out Today, Scott Turner Explores Biology’s Second Law

As Turner says, homeostasis is an exceedingly strange idea. Yet without homeostasis there is no life. Read More ›
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How the Body Controls Its Calcium

Without any one of the necessary systems being in place, the whole would fail and calcium control would be lost. Read More ›
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Photo: Neanderthal skeleton, by Archaeomoonwalker (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Calcium’s Role in the Body — and a Note on the Origin of This Series

Control is the key to life. But how does the body achieve it? Read More ›

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