Tag: filaments
The Best and Worst Heuristics for Biological Discovery
“We don’t know what this structure does, so it probably does nothing. Remember, evolution produces a lot of non-functional debris.”
New Study: The Milky Way Is Exceptional
“You might have to travel a half a billion light years from the Milky Way, past many, many galaxies, to find another cosmological wall with a galaxy like ours.”
Appreciating the Design of Human Muscles
It is likely that no further improvement in muscle power can be achieved by increasing the density of packing of the myosin motors.
Flight: The Genius of Seeds
Plant seeds come equipped to spread themselves in ways that baffle engineers. Did they invent these mechanisms by chance?