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China Suffers 30 Years of Misguided Malthusian Idea

September 18, 2010

China has had a “one-child policy” for 30 years this week. This policy has caused untold grief for many families desiring children, and has resulted in unexpected demographic problems – such as aging of the population, not enough brides for young men, and enormous numbers of abortions. Two articles in Science this week explored the […]

Amazing Facts

Nerve Traffic Cop Identified

September 13, 2010

What makes signals go in one direction in neurons? It’s important, because a reflex signal from a bump on your knee needs to go in the direction of the controlling muscle and on to the brain, not any which way. Is there some kind of traffic cop that directs the placement of “one way” signs […]

Amazing Facts

Electricity Forms Your Heart

July 31, 2010

Did you know your heart is an electrical appliance? That’s right. Currents of electrical ions are vital to its function as a contractile organ. Now, researchers at the University of California have found another thing electricity does for your heart: it guides the developing heart into the proper shape. This is a key study showing […]

Bible and Theology

Exorcising Nazi Ghosts Continues

July 18, 2010

With so many books and documentaries on the Nazi era and World War II, one would think the subject has been worked over to death by historians, and nothing else needs to be said. Surprisingly, new documents keep coming to light. Some new ones reported by Science magazine are especially disturbing: they show a willing […]

Biomimetics

Productive Science Imitates Nature

July 7, 2010

Examples continue to accumulate that some of the most interesting and fruitful science projects involve copying design principles found in nature. This “biomimetics” approach not only pleases the consumers who can look forward to greener, cheaper, better products, but leads to deeper understandings of nature’s workings. Gecko adhesives: PhysOrg published a story on the ongoing […]

Cell Biology

Heal the Blind with Stem Cells

June 30, 2010

Have you heard that some cases of corneal blindness can be cured by stem cells #– from the person’s own eyes? New Scientist recounted some recent successes for victims blinded in one eye by burns or acid. Stem cells taken from the limbus, a disk surrounding the iris, and transplanted onto the damaged cornea, were […]

Bible and Theology

Evolution Tries to Figure Out Dads

June 19, 2010

Why did evolution produce fathers? After male adult humans deliver their genetic component of the zygote, what are they good for? This is a subject in which the Darwinian and the Judeo-Christian concepts of fatherhood begin at opposite poles. But they have to converge on the practical observations of what fathers do best when they […]

Amazing Facts

Your Nerves and Heart Depend on Cellular Pulleys, Latches and Switches

June 4, 2010

Biologists continue to peer closer and closer at cellular machines that work just like man-made ones, only at scales so tiny, they control individual atoms. Of particular interest have been the gates in the membranes of cells that allow certain atoms in but keep others out. A recent paper in Cell by an Australian team […]

Amazing Facts

Fooling Around with OOL

May 31, 2010

Origin of Life (OOL) research is one of those areas in science where one doesn’t have to make any real progress, as long as he or she looks busy. Anything the scientist says, no matter how speculative, or even foolish, is likely to be taken seriously, because the alternative – creation – has already been […]

Cell Biology

Stem Cells: Hope, Politics, Charity, and Clarity

May 30, 2010

Those promising little cells that can differentiate into almost any tissue continue to make news – but they also continue to generate controversy. Actually, only some of them generate controversy: the embryonic stem cells. Not all of the articles about stem cells make that clear. Defining life: With the stroke of a pen, South Korea […]

Bible and Theology

Could This Protein Delay Aging?

May 24, 2010

It’s called Heat Shock Protein 10. It responds to stress, and might just slow the aging process, scientists are finding. Science Daily reported, “Scientists in the UK and the U.S. have discovered that a protein which responds to stress can halt the degeneration of muscle mass caused during the body’s aging process.” Why […]

Human Body

Can Darwin Be Rescued from a New Eye Discovery?

May 7, 2010

Scientists find waveguides and noise receptors built into the retina.

Darwin and Evolution

Southpaw Explanations Out of Left Field

April 30, 2010

All proteins are left handed. Some humans are left handed. Can evolution explain that? Evolutionists are never known to be at a loss for words when asked to explain anything, provided they are allowed liberal use of the word perhaps. A new projection theme for the first left-handed amino acids that comprise proteins […]

Amazing Facts

To Sleep, To Dream: To Dream, Perchance, to Learn

April 25, 2010

When you have learned a complex task, take a nap and dream about it. A new study shows that dreaming helps consolidate the memory in your mind and helps you perform the task better next time around. Science Daily reported on research by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. They tested 99 […]

Biomimetics

Blood Clotting Fibers May Lead to Better Networks

April 22, 2010

We all know that blood clotting has kept us alive many times. We would never have survived childhood scrapes and cuts had it not been for a cascade of responses in blood that builds a network of fibers quickly upon which a scab of tissue stops the flow of blood and begins repairs. That first […]

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