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Springs, Glues, and Rocket Launchers in Cell Division

The molecules of life do much more than convey information. They combine and impose physical forces on each other in intricate, functional ways. Read More ›
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Photo: General Sherman tree, by Jim Bahn / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).

Michael Denton on Nature’s Fitness for Life

Carbon’s suite of life-friendly features is foundational to the cell’s peerless ability to build sophisticated biological forms. Read More ›
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Irreducible Complexity in Bacterial Cell Division

Ready to dip a toe in the ocean of biological ingenuity? Dr. Jonathan McLatchie is back. Read More ›
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DNA Repair and the Origin of Life: Here’s the Problem

Perhaps out there, watching along with you, is another Professor Dan Stern Cardinale who is imagining how easy it’s going to be to take this one apart. Read More ›
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The Enchanted Sleep of Andreas Wagner

Apparently, Darwinian evolution doesn’t actually explain life. This may come as news to some people. Read More ›
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Photo: A superbloom, by Bob Wick, BLM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Phenology: The Science of Seasonal Adaptation

No, not phrenology — phenology. It’s not pseudoscience, but a lesser-known branch of science that includes birds, bees, and trees. Read More ›
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Photo: Ancient gold pectoral pendant, from Panama, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Creative Commons License.

Metals: From Stars to Cells 

Tracing metals back to their ultimate origins, the processes of stellar nucleosynthesis come into focus. Read More ›
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How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke. Read More ›
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Photo: Emperor penguins, by Denis Luyten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Synergies All the Way Down 

Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth.  Read More ›
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Sex: Engineered for Success

Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. Can we credit a gradual evolutionary process for this system? Read More ›

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