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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 biologically dramatic. Yet recent research on the development of wood portrays an elaborate ballet which proceeds inside young developing xylem cells. This performance culminates in […]

Cell Biology

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.

Philosophy of Science

Scientific Discoveries Can Cast Doubt on Long-Held Beliefs

July 28, 2018

You have to look beneath the surface veneer of bluffing in science news to see how the sausage is made before it gets packaged to the press.

Health

Honor Your Body, Honor Your Creator

April 12, 2018

We should all treat our bodies as the gifts that they are, even when parts are not working as well as originally designed.

Human Body

Walk This Way: Body Designs Head to Toe

April 13, 2017

When you examine what makes us tick, you find intelligent design from the top down and from the bottom up.

Birds

Hummingbird Metabolism a "Marvel of Evolutionary Engineering"

December 5, 2013

Unlike humans, hummingbirds are equally good at extracting energy from fructose as from glucose. They are marvels of evolutionary engineering. That makes perfect evolutionary sense.