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Electronic Technology Shows Foresight in Nature

The principal semiconductors are silicon and germanium; silicon’s abundance in the Earth’s crust is second only to oxygen. Read More ›
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Environmentalist Misanthropy: Humans Are Terminal Cancer

Lest readers dismiss the author and the interviewer as fringe, anti-humanism has become a hallmark of environmentalism. Read More ›
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A Power Grid in Muscle Cells Has Profound Design Implications

To see why, we must remember that muscles first appear in the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
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Let’s Sing the Body Electric

The emerging science of “bioelectricity” is opening new vistas into the electrical energy powering our nerves, organs, and tissues. Read More ›
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An Engineering Marvel: Uncovering the Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I

Complex I is involved in the electron transport chain, which is part of the biochemical process by which we create ATP, the energy molecule of life. Read More ›
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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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“Bacteria Are Incredible” — Here Are More Illustrations

Much of our plastic debris accumulates in the oceans where it collects in huge revolving garbage patches on the surface called gyres. Read More ›
chloroplasts
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Nature’s Energy Mining Relies on Molecular Design

Plants mine energy from a primary source (sun) and transform that energy into a secondary source (sugar). Read More ›
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Photo: Hydrothermal vents, where some theories hypothesize that life originated, by NOAA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

#3 Story of 2020: On the Origin of Life, My Response to Jeremy England

Clearly, the questions he and I have discussed are not only of scientific or academic interest, but instead go to the root of life’s meaning and purpose. Read More ›
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life
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“Lifelikeness” Without Intelligent Design? Brian Miller Responds to Jeremy England

Dr. England has a poetic and ingenious article reflecting on God’s commissioning of Moses to lead the Jews out from Egypt. Read More ›

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