Category: Life Sciences
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.
Intelligent Design in Animal Self-Location and Navigation
A question is whether such mechanisms exist in more ancient brain regions of other animals. A new study has identified a self-location mechanism in zebrafish.
Animals Tune Behavior by Lunar Cycle; but How?
Researchers in Austria think they have found a clue: a cryptochrome protein that appears to respond to the lunar cycle.
Minimal Complexity Problem in Prey Detection by the Sand Scorpion
The scorpion can detect tiny vibrations, of order 1 Angstrom (the size of a hydrogen atom) in amplitude, that emanate from its prey.
Diatoms and the Mystery of Morphogenesis
From code to art: how does a linear set of instructions result in a beautifully crafted pattern? Diatoms do it, and scientists are struggling to figure out how.