Category: Science
Another Case Where “Junk” Myth Impeded Science
For decades, evolutionary biologists considered non-coding regions of DNA as evolutionary junk.
McLatchie Explains Design Implications of DNA Replication
Dr. McClatchie notes its “primitive” nature — meaning, not a lack of sophistication (quite the opposite!) but that life at the most basic level depends on it.
AI Corruption of Science Papers Becomes Evident
Reliance on machine-written material may signal a long and continuing decline in the quality of research in many fields.
Stephen Iacoboni: Finding Purpose in Medicine and Science
Ultimately, Dr. Iacoboni aims to help his fellow physicians escape the “suffocating boundaries of mechanism and materialism.”
Slime Mold: Thanks for the Memories
In recent decades, researchers have been learning about memory in slime molds which have neither a brain nor neurons.