Category: Science
Blood Viscosity and Freezing Temperatures — A Titanic Problem
Blood viscosity is the technical reason why Jack froze in less than 23 minutes, but icefish can survive for 15 years in water of a freezing temperature.
Earliest Comb Jellies Wore Armor — “Remarkable,” Say Researchers
It would be surprising, under an evolutionary view, to find such a complex system in the earliest animal fossils.
Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Irreducible Complexity
The first exhibit is Lenski’s long-term evolution experiment, in which, after some 33,000 generations, bacterial cells evolved the ability to grow on citrate.
Medical Association Goes “Neutral” on Killing Patients
Doctors should lead on crucial moral and issues such as this, not be merely flotsam and jetsam.
David Berlinski on the Immaterial, Alan Turing, and the Mystery of Life Itself
If scientists thought that life’s origin and nature would soon yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed.