Tag: osmosis
Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution
The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster.
Secrets of Active Transport Become Visible
TSA workers at airports could never boast of this much quality control in their authentication protocols.
Dr. Glicksman: How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature
In the “just so” stories of the Darwinian narrative, these engineering solutions simply evolved. They emerged and got conserved.