Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

transfer RNA

RubiksCube3x3
Photo credit: Thenror, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Method in the Madness of “Degeneracy”: Here Is Another Genetic Code

The report from MIT doesn’t hesitate to call this a “newly discovered genetic code” or “alternate genetic code” with functional significance. Read More ›
cell
Image credit: Illustra Media.

Getting It Together: Tethers, Handshakes, and Multitaskers in the Cell

Running a cell requires coordination. How do molecules moving in the dark interior of a cell know how and when to connect? Protein tethers offer new clues. Read More ›
stop light
Photo credit: Archer Hadland via Unsplash.

The Stop Lights in the Cell

Even a cell needs laws and enforcers. When the enforcers don’t do their jobs, crime increases in cities and in cells. Read More ›
tree and a man
tree and a man
Photo credit: Gilly Stewart via Unsplash.

Credulity Is the Soil for Darwin’s Tree

The secret is to restrict one’s explanations for life to unguided natural events. Once that decision has been made, everything else flows deductively from it. Read More ›
Workhorse of the Cell
nanotechnology
Image source: “The Workhorse of the Cell: Kinesin,” via Discovery Institute.

Chemical Affinity, Motor Proteins: Good Questions from a Reader

About the movement of organelles: There are molecular motor proteins that haul them around! Read More ›

© Discovery Institute