Tag: molecules
James Tour and the Challenge to Theistic Evolution from Synthetic Chemistry
A chemist like Tour, a very distinguished one, knows from a career’s worth of lab work how painstakingly difficult it is to synthesize molecules you want.
“Remarkably,” Odor Code Just Doubled
Olfactory receptors squeeze more data out of odor molecules than previously thought.
Even the Cell’s Dumpster Is an Intricate Machine
“Correctly dismantling a structure can be as challenging as assembling it. ”
Problems with Peer-Review: A Brief Summary
The peer-review system is largely devoted to maintaining the status quo.
Time for a Soberer Estimation of Hitchens
The beatification of Christopher Hitchens has climbed down a little bit from the heights it reached over the weekend.