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Electronic Technology Shows Foresight in Nature
The principal semiconductors are silicon and germanium; silicon’s abundance in the Earth’s crust is second only to oxygen.
Brother, Can You Spare a Nickel? It’s Essential for Life, and Likely an Indicator of Intelligent Design
Nickel is an essential element in the human body, but too much is toxic. Here’s another element our planet had to provide.
Early Humans Were More Sophisticated than We Thought
Neanderthals were not just downing raw hunks of meat 70,000 years ago, as many of us have assumed.
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.
Prior Fitness for Life: The Problem of Boron
The atomic element boron is essential for life, but how do you get it from stars to plants and animals?