Category: Life Sciences
Millions to Chase a Myth
Last year Harry Lonsdale launched the “Origin of Life Challenge” and called on scientists to propose explanations for how life came from non-life, promising rich rewards.
An Animated Tour of the Cell: Revealing the Majestic Beauty of Biology
It is said that a picture speaks a thousand words.
At NASA, Another Crack in the Darwin Consensus?
“Whatever the biologists want to say about the evolution of life” doesn’t really matter until scientists actually find life around another star.
A Knotty Puzzle
Until fairly recently, scientists believed that folded proteins could be unfolded into a simple polypeptide chain by tugging on one end.
Do Biological Clocks Revive William Paley’s Design Argument?
Ongoing discoveries bring to light mechanisms in living cells that not only keep time, but do it more elegantly than anything man has invented.