Tag: Philip Ball
RNA World Is Sterile — And the Mystery of Life’s Origin Remains
It’s an uninhabited, inhospitable place where hopes die for life by chance.
The Wonder of Water at the Nanoscale
More detail has come out on the fascinating role of water in cellular dynamics, touched on by Denton in his book, The Wonder of Water.
Science on the Rocks
Perhaps confidence in science can, at times, undermine science itself. How much real history has evolutionary storytelling obscured?
Post-Modern Physics: String Theory Gets Over the Need for Evidence
String theory, which took root in the 1970s, proposes that “all objects in our universe are composed of vibrating filaments (strings) and membranes (branes) of energy.”