Super-resolution microscopy has exploded since the diffraction limit was surpassed. Instead of 100nm, scientists are imaging objects at 10nm and smaller. Each new paper pushes the limit: down to 5nm, 4nm, 3nm, where individual domains of molecular machines can be seen.

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A dozen authors at Michigan State University have proposed that the term “Cambrian Explosion” be laid “to rest for any use other than historical reference.” The problem, as they see it, is the tendency of “anti-science” readers to misappropriate “Cambrian Explosion,” to suggest that evolution somehow fails to explain the appearance of nearly all the animal phyla without fossil antecedents of equal complexity.

Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes: the origin of information. Whether intentionally or not, origin-of-life researchers continue to ignore the main point about codes: a code is a message, and a message presupposes a mind.

Are Darwin’s finches “a particularly compelling example of speciation” as well as “evolution in action”? In a series of posts geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig offers some notes on the question of whether macroevolution is happening on the Galápagos Islands.