Internal Beauty: the Nuclear Pore Complex
June 16, 2023
Like a 3-D puzzle solved in 15 minutes, the nuclear envelope is a wonder to behold by Margaret Helder, PhD Imagine that you are a jigsaw puzzle fan....
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HeadStart: New Online Tool for Science Students
February 22, 2022
A new online service from the Creation Science Association of Alberta provides resources for the inquiring student by Margaret Helder, PhD Today’s high school students face a potential information overload....
How the Body Protects the Germline
October 6, 2021
Germline mutations – it could have been much worse! by Margaret Helder, PhD In this age of high-tech medicine, we are all aware that each person carries a large...
Glass Sponges: Lessons from the Deep
August 10, 2021
How can a “simple” or “primitive” sponge surprise engineers with its optimal physics? by Margaret Helder, PhD It is not every day that one discovers living organisms which were...
Trap-Jaw Ants Pose Trick Question
March 18, 2021
Ant Study Handles Trick Question: Form or Function: Which Came First? by Margaret Helder, PhD Insects are famous for their diversity. Everybody knows that! So it was that when an...
How Wood Is Made
March 5, 2021
Arboreal Artistry: The Amazing Talents of Wood Forming Cells By Margaret Helder As the major component of trees, wood seems useful and even beautiful in finished products, but scarcely...
Living Fossils: The Horseshoe Crab Story
February 22, 2021
...seems drastically wrong with this belief. We appreciate Dr Helder’s insights into this topic. —Ed. Margaret Helder completed her education with a Ph.D. in Botany from Western University in London,...
Celebrate ENCODE III and the demise of ‘Junk DNA’
November 5, 2020
An international genome survey finds that vast quantities of non-coding DNA are transcribed and probably functional, not ‘junk’ as evolutionists had thought by Margaret Helder, PhD It is no secret...
Diatoms Defy the Evolutionary Endosymbiosis Theory
June 29, 2020
Why Endosymbiosis Cannot Explain Diatoms – Or Anything Else By Margaret Helder, PhD Diatoms: Talent Content Winners Diatom photos by Mark Armitage. To the people most familiar with them, algae...
Evolution of Vascular Plants a Kaleidoscope, Not a Tree
June 8, 2020
Kaleidoscope of Design Combinations: Vascular Plant Form and Function By Margaret Helder, PhD All things considered, it must be discouraging to be a specialist in land plant phylogeny. The...
Previous Tetrapod Ancestors Fell Flat, Too
May 12, 2020
Fame and Fortune (cont.): What constitutes a sister taxon to tetrapods? By Margaret Helder, PhD (continued from yesterday) Ever since Prof. Edward Drinker Cope identified a lobe finned fish...
Latest Tetrapod Ancestor Can’t Stand Up
May 11, 2020
Fame and Fortune: New fish claims sister taxon status to tetrapods By Margaret Helder, PhD Many scientists dream of attaching their name to some really significant achievement. Indeed, within...
Plant Ancestry: Where Are the Lines of Descent? – Part 2
March 30, 2020
Peculiar Characteristics of Plants Defy Common Ancestry (cont. from Part 1) By Margaret Helder, PhD (Botany) Note: See Part 1, where Dr Helder discusses the peculiarities of major classes of...
Plant Ancestry – Where are the Lines of Descent? – Part 1
March 27, 2020
Peculiar Characteristics of Plants Defy Evolution By Margaret Helder, PhD (Botany) Some moss is famous Canal in Groningen, Netherlands (Pixabay) Have you ever seen a pleasure boat proceeding smoothly...
Flip Flops in Plant Ancestry
March 13, 2020
Are green algae the ancestors of all land plants? Do paleontologists even know that these fossils are green algae? by Margaret Helder, PhD In science, as in many disciplines, some...