A new paper in Nature Reviews Genetics, “Overcoming challenges and dogmas to understand the functions of pseudogenes,” is simply incredible. It documents not only that pseudogenes have been found to have widespread function but also that under current “dogma” in biology, and given the technical limitations, we are failing to recognize their functions.

How does life emerge from that which is not alive? That mystery has long exercised a peculiar fascination. Join materials scientist Walter Bradley, biochemist Charles Thaxton, and geochemist Roger Olsen – authors of the classic 1984 book, The Mystery of Life’s Origin – on January 25.

Written in 1959, her monumental book, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, continues to tower over Whiggish studies on the subject.

It seems curious that the only body in the Solar System known to be inhabited would be the most colorful and, arguably, the most beautiful one. Why would color and beauty be associated with life?

A prominent researcher in consciousness studies offers reasons for doubt.