Tag: Engineering
New Book Spotlights High Tech Animal Navigation
Meet the animal kingdom’s most stunning navigators — the Arctic tern, homing pigeons, the monarch butterfly, and the desert ant, among others.
Self-Replication? Not Even Close
Cornell University researchers allegedly “created a machine that can build copies of itself.”
Studies on Labrid Fish Confirm Operational Gravity Well Model for Adaptation
The extent to which the authors recognize the implications of their conclusions is difficult to say.
Studies on Insect Wings Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation
The “long-winged” phenotype is generated if the environmental conditions deteriorate due to reduced food supply or overpopulation.
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.