Author: David Coppedge
Geneticists Puzzled by Octopus’s Unique Genes: Seem to Have Appeared Out of Nowhere
“Evolution of novel genes”? Isn’t that the question at hand? Where do novel genes come from?
SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds
SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial.
New Engineering Ideas from Biology
The 2023 Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, organized by the CSC’s Engineering Research Group, is set for June 1-3 in Denton, Texas.
Darwin, We Have a Problem: Horse Teeth Are Not Less Evolved
Time to debunk another evolutionary story by questioning underlying Darwinian assumptions about how things came to be.
Appreciating the Irreducibly Complex Design of Salmon Osmoregulation
Three main things must occur for the young salmon, called a smolt, to prepare for life in the salty ocean.