Archive for July, 2012

Scientists Create Artificial Jellyfish Using Rat Cells

Scientists Create Artificial Jellyfish Using Rat Cells

A team of Harvard scientists has reverse-engineered a jellyfish by using cells from a rat’s heart muscle, resulting in the world’s first synthetic jelly.

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Review: The Doors of the Sea

Review: The Doors of the Sea

D.B. Hart’s treatise is a rejoinder to a problem perhaps as ancient as humanity itself: the philosophical problem of evil.

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Carbon Dating for the Rest of Us

Carbon Dating for the Rest of Us

Though it’s one of the oldest age dating methods in use today, C-14 dating is largely misunderstood by the general public. I provide a layman’s explanation of this well-established technique.

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