Food scare leads to design discovery
Avian deceptions
What is brood parasitism? Can evolution explain its origin?
Vale Dr John C. Whitcomb (1924–2020)
It is hard to overstate the influence Dr John Whitcomb on the modern creation movement
Supercapacitor electrode design inspired by leaves on branches
The arrangement of branches and leaves maximizes gas absorption. Supercapacitor modeled on this pattern, albeit a millionth the size, maximizes charge storage capacity.
The tragic death of thought
A short story about censorship of thought, academic freedom and the limitations
of science—pithy quotations that reinforce the main points are listed as footnotes,
to avoid spoiling the article’s flow.
Coelacanth: The transitional fossil that wasn’t
The transitional fossil that wasn’t
Intriguing Ice-Age art
Ice Age cartoons unearthed in Britain’s Channel Islands give insights into the lives of post-Ice Age colonizers.
Manta ray might inspire new filter design
Manta ray filter with ricochet separation inspires non-clogging biomimetics
Natural selection
RNA world and pig-monkey chimera
Does the RNA world hypothesis explain the origin of life, and what should we make of the pig-monkey chimera?
Cancelling Eve
Until quite recently, an article on what it means to be a woman would have been deemed rather absurd. Not anymore. In our post-Christian culture, confusion abounds.
Walk like a skate?
Are the ‘walking’ actions of skates an evolutionary step between swimming and walking on land?