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Photo: A springtail, by gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

As Science Observes, Talk of Evolution Fades

Another point worthy of note: the more sophistication that is found in biological engineering, the more scientists want to imitate it.  Read More ›
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Photo: Hesperornis skeleton, Ghedoghedo via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

No. 5 Story of 2024: New Evidence Against Dino-Bird Ancestry

Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Read More ›
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Let’s Throw Mathematical Light on the Origin of Life

If researchers really were making progress, wouldn’t that mean they would be converging on the same truth? Yet they are not. Read More ›
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Research with Mice May Explain How the Placebo Effect Works

The mice had to be placed in a painful situation in order to trigger a placebo effect. With humans, it is often just a matter of communicating orally. Read More ›
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Photo: Hesperornis skeleton, Ghedoghedo via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fossil Friday: New Evidence Against Dinosaur Ancestry of Birds

Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin statue
Photo: Darwin statute at the Natural History Museum, by Alan Perestrello, via Flickr (cropped).

Repair Trust in Science? In Science Magazine, Forrest Mims Replies

Charles Darwin is an example of a brilliant scientist who was nonetheless an imperfect human with some false ideas. Read More ›
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Engineering Language Enters Biology — The Case of the Endosome

An automated engineering system presupposes a designer with foresight and a mind that understands how to make things work. Read More ›
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Photo: William Dembski, © László Bencze.

Dembski and the Miraculous

"Dr. Dembski’s family has learned to look for the miraculous in everyday loving encounters." Read More ›
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“Bacteria Are Incredible” — Here Are More Illustrations

Much of our plastic debris accumulates in the oceans where it collects in huge revolving garbage patches on the surface called gyres. Read More ›
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Design Gets Down and Dirty — Complex Specified Information in Electric Mud

Bacteria that conduct electricity with cables may be involved in everything from cleansing the oceans and enriching the soil to guarding our own teeth. Read More ›

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