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Photo: An elephantfish, by Devon Bowen, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Noise Cancellation: A Remarkable Design Solution in Biology

The principle behind this biological methodology can be extended to every case in biology where an organism needs to discriminate signals from self. Read More ›
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How Can a Woman Missing Her Olfactory Bulbs Still Smell?

The brain’s plasticity intrigues and puzzles researcher, and it also raises a larger issue. Read More ›
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The Nose Really Does Know, It Turns Out…

Anosmia, the loss of a sense of smell, affects up to 80 percent of COVID sufferers. However long it lasts, it is a health and safety concern. Read More ›
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If Materialists Are Right About the Brain, Why No “Morality Seizures”?

"There are no intellectual seizures, which is odd, given that large regions of the brain are presumed by neuroscientists to serve intellectual thought." Read More ›
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Sense of Smell Requires Optimized, Scalable Network Circuitry

The ability to smell is one of the most complex of our senses. It requires sorting, analyzing, and sifting a torrent of input data quickly. Read More ›
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The Blink of an Eye — And More Wonders of Human Body Design

Darwinists insist on your body’s “poor design.” Yeah, right. Check these out. Read More ›
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A Smell Test for Design v. Evolutionary Explanations

One of the reasons cockroaches are so successful is their keen sense of smell. Read More ›
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Thanks, Dr. Oz — Our Favorite Super Bowl Ad, a Beautiful Celebration of Complex Senses

Let’s examine the subject in a little more depth than what a commercial can do in a minute and thirty seconds: Read More ›
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“Remarkably,” Odor Code Just Doubled

Olfactory receptors squeeze more data out of odor molecules than previously thought. Read More ›
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“Happy Salmon” and Other Wonders of the Fish World’s Migrating Marvel

Salmon may not be happy when we eat them, but we're happy learning about them. Read More ›

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