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Photo: A gold nugget from Australia, by James St. John, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Earth’s Gold-Mining Machine

Earth operates an extraordinary natural factory that concentrates gold from barely detectable amounts into rich deposits that humans can mine. How? Read More ›
HamekoskiIronFoundry
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Eric Hedin: The Miracle(s) of Metal

Humans have successfully utilized metals for millennia, and trace amounts of metals are crucial to our survival. Is that coincidence or something more? Read More ›
Ancient gold pectoral pendant
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 ›
Abdopus aculeatus
Photo: Abdopus aculeatus, an algae octopus, by IchHier--15er (Diskussion), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Loving Goodbye…from an Octopus?

Did the science teacher's octopus really know she was dying? Was she trying to say goodbye? Read More ›
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Photo credit: USGS via Unsplash.

What Subduction Teaches About Intelligent Design

My PhD research was on the early plate tectonic history on earth. Plate tectonics involves the movement of plates on the surface of the earth. Read More ›
Kimberella
Kimberella
Photo: Kimberella, by the paleobear from Lontananza, Loreto, Peru / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).

Reconstructing Kimberella — The Disputed Anatomy in Detail

Fossils often leave much room for very different interpretations of relatively poor evidence. Read More ›
Kimberella
Kimberella
Photo: Kimberella, via Wikimedia Commons.

Kimberella — Four Phases of Interpretation

In the quite checkered history of the detailed reconstruction of Kimberella, we can distinguish four distinct successive phases. Read More ›
copper penny
Photo: A 100 percent copper penny, by US Mint (coin), National Numismatic Collection (photograph by Jaclyn Nash) / Public domain.

In Praise of Copper, a Gift from Nature

If the conductivity of copper were ten times less, wires would have to be ten times the cross-sectional area to provide the same conductivity. Read More ›
Michael Behe

Michael Behe, Biochemist and Superhero, Was Live at Seattle Center; See It Now!

John West appropriately introduced Dr. Behe as the “archetypal mild-mannered professor” who “helped provoke a revolutionary debate.” Read More ›
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New Geochemical Discoveries Reaffirm Earth as a Privileged Planet

Remember CHONPS — the acronym you learned in high school to remember the elements most important for life? Read More ›

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