Tag: University of Maryland
What’s in a Name? Debating the Anthropocene Epoch
Earlier this month, geologists voted down a proposal to give the years since 1950 a geological name, the Anthropocene Epoch.
How Do We Know the Age of the Universe?
A correspondent asked me recently how we know the age of the universe. The answer is calculated from the inverse of the Hubble constant.
Protein Folding Breakthrough: Evolution or Design?
DeepMind, the AI company that beat human Go gamers with AlphaGo, has made progress in solving the protein folding problem. But who deserves the credit?
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.
Paper by Biologist Antony Jose Seeks to Understand Heritability Beyond DNA
Fierce debates have occurred among intelligent design theorists — mostly behind the scenes — about the causal role of DNA.