Archive: Neptune, Molecular Motors, Romance
May 3, 2024
These entries from May 2002, lost during a website upgrade, are reposted here for edification, amusement, or both.
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Archive: Your Model Train Set
February 23, 2024
Model trains in your cells? Yes: read about this and other wonders from 21 years ago. Note: Some embedded links may no longer work. Your Model Train Set 02/25/2003 Model train enthusiasts never had it so good. Imagine five different models of finely-crafted engines, all in perfect working order, and enough track to cover a […]
Maxwell Demon Secret: Intelligent Design
August 30, 2023
An instance has been found of James Clerk Maxwell's speculation about overcoming entropy.
Body Design Extends to the Cell
July 6, 2023
From the whole body to each individual cell, we appear engineered for a purpose.
How to Charge Your Smartphone on a Grill
September 14, 2022
It can be done, but there are certain other requirements that are not likely to happen naturally.
Are Giant Viruses Alive?
November 23, 2020
Another new form of life discovered: the world gets more complicated.
Materialists Say that Life Stinks
January 5, 2020
Secular scientists look to stinky poisons to explain where life came from.
Crossing Guard Found in Mitochondrial Membranes
June 3, 2019
This is no ordinary crossing guard. It also acts as a bouncer or cop when bad proteins try to clog up the channel.
Automatic Emergency Brake Found on Molecular Motor
May 22, 2019
Ross Anderson discusses a new finding about how an 'emergency brake' works in one of the most vital of all molecular machines, ATP synthase.
Photosynthesis: Darwin’s Great Mystery Is Still a Mystery
May 2, 2019
Dr Jerry Bergman explains why the origin of photosynthesis remains a profound problem for evolution.
Molecular Machine Paper Ignores Evolution
February 14, 2019
Another paper shows that evolutionary storytelling is neither necessary or useful when investigating molecular machines.
How Did Earth Get Its Phosphorus?
September 12, 2018
The element phosphorus is hard to get to a planet's surface where it is needed.
More Cool Cell Tricks Discovered
April 24, 2018
Watching molecular machines at work in living cells should be as fascinating as watching a city through a magnifying glass.
Astrobiology Still Has No Biology
April 11, 2018
Number of worlds beyond Earth where life has been discovered: zero. Number of optimistic articles about life in outer space: hundreds per year.
Secularists Battle Over Which Life Theory Is More Wrong
August 16, 2016
Origin-of-life camps don't recognize that RNA-World theories and hydrothermal-vent theories suffer from the same basic problem.