Category: Life Sciences
Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses
Don’t walk on the grass, that “often undervalued” form of life, without looking down. It’s amazing down there.
Beyond Genes: Biologists Seek Purpose in Unknown Substances, Processes
There’s more going on in DNA and cells than the old Central Dogma predicted. The time has come to look beyond genes.
Stifling Food Production to “Save the Planet”
After Sri Lanka’s government restricted non-organic fertilizer use, the economy and government collapsed.
Foresight in the Biosphere: Lowly Organisms Help Rescue the Planet from Pollution
Need technology to fight the effects of technology? Look instead to living things that already have solutions.
If Nanomotors Are Designed, Why Not Biomotors?
Physical chemists are justifiably proud of their tiny motors that do little more than spin. How can they say that much more complex motors in life evolved?