How Small Became Beautiful: A Brief History of Information Storage

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For readers whose eyes may be glazing over with all these large exponentials for measuring DNA storage, let me offer an observation from Michael Denton. Source
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If Nanomotors Are Designed, Why Not Biomotors?

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Physical chemists are justifiably proud of their tiny motors that do little more than spin. How can they say that much more complex motors in life evolved? Source
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