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How to Restore Science’s Lost Luster

More and more, the scientific establishment looks like a special interest group with biases of their own. Read More ›
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Squid’s Got Talent — Super-Powers Astonish Scientists

The humble squid astonishes scientists with its super-powers. Are these marine champions really the products of random mutations and natural selection? Read More ›
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Security Gates in the Cell

A key characteristic of life is active transport: control over what enters and exits the cell. Closer looks reveal exquisite “selectivity filters” with moving parts that make active transport work. Read More ›
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Blurring the Line Between Natural and Artificial

As technology mimics nature, at what point might future investigators be unsure about natural versus intelligent causes? Read More ›
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Is Sex Binary?

The denial by mainstream scientists that sex is binary is of the same cloth as the denial that human life starts at conception and the denial that intelligent design is evident in living things. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design in Birds, Insects Inspires Aeronautics and More

Scientists in London filled a flight tunnel with thousands of tiny soap bubbles to reveal the motions of air as the owl flies through them. Read More ›
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Informed Choice Seen in Cellular Nanomachines

As imaging techniques approach nanometer resolution, the detailed workings of molecular mechanisms reveal precision engineering designs. Read More ›
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Can New Genes Emerge from Scratch?

Evolutionary theory must account for millions of new genes by chance. Here are new ideas proposed for overcoming the huge probability barrier. Read More ›
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Science Education and the Growth Mindset

Growth mindset is an idea popularized by Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. Read More ›
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#7 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Three Nobel Endorsements for Marcos Eberlin

This is the refrain of the book: “It is all or death!” “All or nothing!” Half-solutions are no solutions at all. Read More ›

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