8+ hour, 32+ min ago  (505+ words) Human chromosomal fusion has often been cited as strong evidence supporting human-ape common ancestry. It's not. As a recent paper in Cell Genomics reports, "Incomplete lineage sorting of segmental duplications defines the human chromosome 2 fusion site early during African great…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (677+ words) Here I will endeavor to point out that structure-function relationships, just like most dualities themselves, are fictions of language, a'fa'on de parler. They exist for the sake of description only, but do not actually contain the full meaning of the…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (477+ words) A team of scientists from China leveraged AI to design an enzyme that facilitates recycling of polyurethane! This work was published in the journal'Science. What is polyurethane and where is it used? It's a type of plastic and it is…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago  (214+ words) Equal parts incredible frustration to even more incredible fascination: here is a recent talk on the origin of life by Loren Williams at Georgia Tech. Always display content from YouTube First, here is your warning. You will hear one word,…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (405+ words) The Immortal Mind,a new book by neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and science writer Denyse O'Leary, challenges some unexamined dogmas that dominate science classrooms and popular media " especially materialism, the theory that mind, spirit, and the soul are simply illusions and…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (935+ words) Picture this: you grab a box of bobby pins, clip them to the ends of your hair, and sit in front of a mirror. Source Picture this: you grab a box of bobby pins, clip them to the ends of…...