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16Sep 2024 by Post

Embrace the Chaos: How Cells Harness Disorder for Function

Alex Holehouse, AlphaFold, antibiotics, ATP synthase, biophysicists, botanis, Brownian motion, Caltech, car jacks, cell's, conformations, cytoplasm, Duke University, electrostatic conditions, eric hedin, Gabriella Heller, Intelligent Design, intrinsically disordered proteins, kinesin, Life Sciences, Maxwell’s demon, MIT, molecular machines, noncoding RNAs, nucleus, pollen grains, proteins, Robert Brown, Robert Shedinger, Scotsmen, socket wrenches, solubility, The Scientist, Washington University

In three classes of examples, cells are shown to manipulate chaotic forces toward functional purposes. Source

26Jun 2023 by Post

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Bacterial Flagella

bacterial flagellum, braking system, bushing, bushings, cell membrane, clutch, Dave Farina, David Snoke, drive shaft, Evolution, flagellar synthesis, FleQ, Intelligent Design, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, machine, machinery, Michael Behe, microorganisms, mutation rate, natural selection, nitrogen metabolism, NtrC, outboard motor, point mutations, population size, Professor Dave, protein science, proteins, Pseudomonas fluorescens, terminology, The Scientist, Theoretical Population Biology, twitching motility, type IV pilis, universal joint, YouTubers

The video complains about Behe’s “usage of terminology pertaining to machinery.” Is Farina going to charge the entire flagella community with dishonesty? Source

20Oct 2022 by Post

Noncoding RNA Research Gaining Ground Over “Junk” Label

biology, Caltech, Christie Wilcox, chromosomes, Debra Silver, Duke University, Eastern Virginia Medical School, ENCODE, Evolution, GENCODE, Gene Yao, genes, Intelligent Design, John Mattick, Junk DNA, lncRNA, miRNA, Mitch Guttman, mRNAs, Nature Methods, ncRNAs, noncoding RNAs, Research, RNA, The Scientist, UC San Diego, University of New South Wales, Vivien Marx

Perhaps it won’t be long before everyone, critics included, looks at the “junk DNA” concept in the rear-view mirror. Source

13Aug 2022 by Post

What Is It Like to Be a Bee?

Alun Anderson, Antonio Damasio, BBC, bees, Catherine Wilson, consciousness, dancers, Dogs, dopamine, insect rights, intelligence, James Shapiro, Lars Chittka, materialism, Neuroscience & Mind, New Scientist, panpsychism, Princeton University Press, science, sensation, The Mind of a Bee, The Scientist, University of Chicago, USC, waggle dance

What, exactly, does “consciousness” or “feel and think” mean when applied to a bee? This usage is no remote outpost. Source

21Apr 2022 by Post

Dan Graur: The Core Rationale for Claiming “Junk DNA”

biologists, biology, Christie Wilcox, Dan Graur, Evolution, evolutionary processes, foresight, functionality, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, kissing the wall, Paul Nelson, science stopper, syllogism, The Scientist, Twitter, University of Houston

This explains why many researchers, who are fully on board with evolution, nonetheless ignore Graur’s advice. Source

05Apr 2022 by Post

Did Researchers Teach Fish to “Do Math”?

arithmetic, bees, cichlids, counting, fish, food pellets, infants, Intelligent Design, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, numbers, Rafael Núñez, Silke Goebel, Sophie Fessl, stringrays, The Scientist, UC San Diego

Some test fish learned how to how to get food pellets but the difficulty, as so often, lies with interpretation. Source

27Mar 2022 by Post

Are Birds Really Smarter than Reptiles?

animal behavior, babies, birds, brain size, brain volume, cognitive capacity, Cornell University, cuckoo, Diane Colombelli-Négrel, eggs, facial recognition, fairy wrens, intelligence, Intelligent Design, lemurs, lizards, Malurus cyaneus, neurons, Neuroscience & Mind, Pavel Němec, penguins, reptiles, The Scientist

Scientists clash over how to measure animal intelligence: brain volume, brain organization, numbers of neurons…? Source

17Feb 2022 by Post

Cinderella Story? Transposons Gain New Respect

biology, Christie Wilcox, Cinderella, disease, Drosophila, ENCODE, Evolution, Evolution News, Intelligent Design, John Hewitt, Josefa González, Junk DNA, Michael Denton, myelin, natural selection, noncoding DNA, parasites, Paul Nelson, Pseudomonas, retrotransposons, retroviruses, Spanish Research Council, symbionts, The Scientist, transposable elements, transposons

Junk DNA has been getting redress for decades of ignominy. Now, retrotransposons and transposable elements may be next in line for a better reputation. Source

03Feb 2022 by Post

New Mode of Flight Found in Tiny Beetle

Adrian Malone, barbs, beetles, biology, bird feathers, Blepharida sacra, Charles Darwin, Chloe Tenn, Coleoptera, convergent evolution, electron micrograph, Evolution, flat bark beetle, flea beetle, Flight, froghoppers, insect wings, Intelligent Design, J.B.S. Haldane, Japan, larvae, Longitarsus anchusae, Matthew Bertone, miniaturization, Nature (journal), PLOS ONE, ptiloptery, Research, Sergey E. Farisenkov, The Scientist, Zookeys

A millimeter-sized beetle flies efficiently with feathery wings and a beat mode not seen before. Did it evolve by natural selection? Source

18Mar 2021 by Post

A Flea Circus of Small Animal Acrobats

animals, BBC, Cosmos (series), crustaceans, Current Biology, Darwinian theory, dragonflies, flea circus, Harikumar Suwa, Imperial College London, Intelligent Design, Italy, North Carolina, roundworms, Sandeep Eswarappa, spiders, tardigrades, The Conversation, The Scientist, University of Trento, UV light, water bears

Small animals amuse and amaze scientists who take a close look at them in action. Sometimes it requires a high-speed camera to analyze the trick. Source

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