Tag: semiconductors
By Design: Brain Miniaturization in Some Very Small Insects
Does reduced brain size affect the behavior of animals? The answer appears to be that there is no effect.
Electronic Technology Shows Foresight in Nature
The principal semiconductors are silicon and germanium; silicon’s abundance in the Earth’s crust is second only to oxygen.
Prior Fitness for Life: The Problem of Boron
The atomic element boron is essential for life, but how do you get it from stars to plants and animals?
Design Gets Down and Dirty — Complex Specified Information in Electric Mud
Bacteria that conduct electricity with cables may be involved in everything from cleansing the oceans and enriching the soil to guarding our own teeth.