Category: Life Sciences
The Molecular Machine Behind Carbon Balance
Plants are icons of sustainability. They create critical products for other living organisms while utilizing waste products.
Nature’s Energy Mining Relies on Molecular Design
Plants mine energy from a primary source (sun) and transform that energy into a secondary source (sugar).
Why Intelligent Design Can Help Develop Clean, Green Energy Solutions
Photosynthesis has been criticized as inefficient. Why? Because it is assumed to be the product of a mindless evolutionary process.
Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering
Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils.
Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step
The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel.