Tag: electricity
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.
Environmentalist Misanthropy: Humans Are Terminal Cancer
Lest readers dismiss the author and the interviewer as fringe, anti-humanism has become a hallmark of environmentalism.
A Power Grid in Muscle Cells Has Profound Design Implications
To see why, we must remember that muscles first appear in the Cambrian explosion.
Let’s Sing the Body Electric
The emerging science of “bioelectricity” is opening new vistas into the electrical energy powering our nerves, organs, and tissues.
An Engineering Marvel: Uncovering the Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I
Complex I is involved in the electron transport chain, which is part of the biochemical process by which we create ATP, the energy molecule of life.