David Coppedge

From bacterium to brontosaur, stability in a dynamic environment requires an astonishing array of systems for sensing, signaling, and responding to change.

The centennial of the Scopes Trial is a good time to set the record straight. Here’s a way to turn the tables on the stereotype.

The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced. This tradition, begun in 1991 by Improbable Research , celebrates “achievements so surprising that they make people LAUGH, then THINK.

What molecular structure forms cartwheels, is architecturally beautiful, and is vital for cell division?

Making the rounds on the mainstream media recently has been a story that “lead exposure helped shape human intelligence” ( ). This just-so story, based

Simon Conway Morris described the Ediacaran ecology as a “sleepy” world of simple, passive creatures bearing no resemblance to what was to come.

Tessellated patterns are surprisingly prevalent in biology. Are these forms necessary for function, or mere consequences of natural laws?

The report from MIT doesn’t hesitate to call this a “newly discovered genetic code” or “alternate genetic code” with functional significance.

It's been years since we looked into James Clerk Maxwell's argument for design. We posted one of his poems that devastated naturalism with satirical wit.

So far we detect significant prescience about intelligent design in Maxwell's thought. He all but uses the phrase himself. Readers may wish to investigate essays from his mature years at Cambridge (1873-1878), reprinted by Campbell: