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Photo credit: ArnoldReinhold, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

20,000 Bots Under the Sea: A Fantastic Voyage into the Cell

Imagine you have been invited to a futuristic discovery center, a facility that has pioneered the ability to shrink people and objects many orders of magnitude. Read More ›
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New Movie Reveals the “Hidden Hand Behind Our Universe”

A great deal of evidence indicates that the universe (space, time, matter, and energy) came into existence from nothing about 14 billion years ago. Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA, ESA, K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and D. Watson (University of Rochester); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

Can Equations Serve as a Designer Substitute?

To achieve “something rather than nothing” requires more than an equation, more than mathematics. Read More ›
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Goodbye to a Basic Clade That Has Been with Us Since 1908?

It is hard — okay, impossible — to keep up with the number of frankly stunning revisions of core evolutionary theory these days. Read More ›
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Building the Foundations: The Strong Nuclear Force

If the strong force suddenly turned off, the nuclei in an object as small as a gold ring would explode with energy equivalent to a small atomic bomb. Read More ›
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Photo: Taro leaf, by Avenue at Wikimedia Commons.

Green Creatures: The Intelligent Design of Plants

Emily Reeves notes the operation of photosystem II, “the only enzyme in nature that is known to be able to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen." Read More ›
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Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Nayyeri, L. Marchetti, J. Lowenthal.

A “Quantum Miracle” that Leads to Life

To eventually form stars, planets, and life, neutral atoms are a definite prerequisite. Read More ›
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Weird Water and Its Role in the Rise of Chemistry

Water has been crucial in the transition from alchemy to the science of chemistry. Read More ›
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Photo: Earth as seen from the Moon, by NASA.

What Can We Infer About the Source of Life?

If I may, I would submit that a familial relationship exists between the author of life and what has been made. Read More ›
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Supreme Elegance: The Fine-Tuning of the Properties of Matter for Life on Earth

In the biochemical domain, nature is indeed, as Isaac Newton rightly claimed, “pleased with simplicity” and abhors “superfluous causes.”  Read More ›

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