Tag: temperature
New Geochemical Discoveries Reaffirm Earth as a Privileged Planet
Remember CHONPS — the acronym you learned in high school to remember the elements most important for life?
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.
Water — A Grand Story of Intelligent Design, Told by Michael Denton
Its unique properties allow it to fill many roles throughout the biological world, from forming the matrix of our cells, to regulating the temperature of our planet.
Anomalous Aspects of Common Water
The subject of Michael Denton’s new book — water — is ubiquitous, as indeed for living creatures it must be.
In Purpose & Desire, Out Today, Scott Turner Explores Biology’s Second Law
As Turner says, homeostasis is an exceedingly strange idea. Yet without homeostasis there is no life.