Tag: PNAS
Tricks of the Cell Trade
Cell processes are quick and efficient. They can even solve geometry problems in the dark without eyes or brains.
Insects and Design: Ant and Honeybee Engineers
If you’ve ever watched ants busily tunneling in an ant farm, you may have noticed that the intricate finished product rarely collapses. Why is that?
Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers
They appear in the early Cambrian fossil record: the first examples of the most diverse phylum on earth. Who knew their skills would become the envy of human engineers?
Detecting Malicious Intent in Undisputed Design
Within clearly designed objects, malicious intents can lurk. Intelligent design theory handles those, too, and should.
Rats! Another Code Found in Whiskers
Neurons in a rat’s whiskers “represent multiple stimulus features in a tiled and continuous manner, thus encoding large regions of a complex sensory space.”