Tag: Engineering
Biomimetics Moves STEM Education in an Intriguing Direction
An initiative by a major biomimetics lab to prepare students for careers in STEM introduces them to biological coding.
More on Winston Ewert’s “Dependency Graph of Life” — An Important New Paper
The evolution of life mimics the evolution of software or other human technology.
The Dependency Graph Hypothesis — How It Is Inferred
Ewert proposes that life is best explained not by Darwin’s hypothesis of an ancestry tree, but by a modern design-inspired hypothesis.
DNA as Clue: How Intelligence Detects and Creates Information
What does it mean that there’s information in DNA, and how does this distinguish it from most other physical objects?
Protein Folds Violate Evolutionary Expectations
Protein folds show more flexibility than previously thought, but the flexibility appears designed. If it’s hard to get one fold to work, how about two in the same protein?