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Hexokinase
Image: Hexokinase, an enzyme; the original uploader was TimVickers at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why AlphaFold Has Not Solved the Protein-Folding Problem

The online database AlphaFold represents an amazing breakthrough by any measure of the word “breakthrough.” Read More ›
DNA
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An Optimistic Solution to the Mystery of Life’s Origin

Consider what five prestigious origin-of-life thinkers say about the current status of origin-of-life research. Read More ›
Jeremy England
Image: Jeremy England lectures in Stockholm, via YouTube.

Still Unexplained: The First Living Cell

In recent years, MIT physicist Jeremy England has gained media attention for proposing a thermodynamic energy-dissipation model of the origin of life. Read More ›
RNA
Image: RNA, via Illustra Media’s documentary Origin.

Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules

For some theorists, the origin of life is defined as the natural origin of a self-replicating system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
fern
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Gene Sharing Is More Widespread than Thought, with Implications for Darwinism

Evidence is growing that organisms share existing genetic information horizontally, not just vertically. Read More ›
Louis Pasteur
Image: Louis Pasteur, by Sanjai B R 1840722, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

All Living Systems Must Process Energy, Store and Utilize Information, and Replicate

Louis Pasteur showed that what appeared to be life springing forth from nonliving matter was actually life emerging from exceedingly small living organisms. Read More ›
grass lawn
Photo credit: © Walter Bradley.

Did Life First Arise by Purely Natural Means?

Evolutionary theory and the development of the second law of thermodynamics are two of the three major scientific discoveries of the 19th century. Read More ›
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If Darwin Visited the 21st Century

Charles Darwin learns about DNA and the other discoveries of molecular biology that have occurred since he developed his theory. Read More ›
RuvAB
Image source: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (screen shot).

RuvAB: Another Elegant Molecular Motor Visualized

This machine looks like something out of a CAD/CAM project, but it’s found in bacteria. Read More ›
TW & Two BST
Photo source: Tom Woodward.

Report from Australia: Sharing Design Evidence Down Under

While I packed for my July/August speaking tour of Queensland, Australia, science writer Stephen Buranyi dropped an 11-page bombshell in London. Read More ›

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