Creation Revolution

Category: Technology

• Bug-Eye Camera, Fly Robot and other Bio-Inspired Tech

  By David Coppedge Incredible advancements in technology are coming from the imitation of nature, but engineers cannot yet attain animal performance. Look like a bug:  “New Camera Inspired by Insect Eyes,” announced Science Now.  If you thought insects with their compound eyes … Continue reading →

  

• Lessons from locust wings

  by David Catchpoole The challenges confronting designers of small robotic aircraft are many. For example, fixed wings, like those used on passenger aircraft, become very inefficient in tiny robotic planes.1 So aeronautical engineers are looking at flapping wings as an alternative. Researchers … Continue reading →

  

• The Christian Leader in the Digital Age

  By Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. The Digital Age is upon us. In the span of less than three decades, we have redefined the way humans communicate, entertain, inform, research, create, and connect – and what we know now is only … Continue reading →

  

• Did Underwater Archaeologist Confirm Noah’s Flood?

  by Brian Thomas, M.S. Underwater archaeologist Robert Ballard claimed to have found evidence beneath the Black Sea that Noah’s Flood really occurred. Christians who only read headlines may count this as confirmation of the Bible. But whatever Ballard found should … Continue reading →

  

• Darwin Tree Visualization Tool Obscures More Than It Educates

  A new website helps visualize evolution.  But does it confirm or obfuscate the real world? OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer is a new web tool that lets viewers play a kind of “Google Earth” with Darwin’s “tree of life.”  Produced by … Continue reading →

  

• Butterfly Cities and Spider Optics

  Skycrapers of the future may shine in brilliant butterfly colors.  Optical biosensors may be made from spider webs.  These are just a few of the engineering marvels coming from biomimetics—the imitation of nature. Walls of butterfly light:  A press release from … Continue reading →

  

• Engineered Adaptability

  by Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D. Doctors, lawyers, and engineers. Engineers always seem to take third place in the list of esteemed professions. Exciting television programs feature skilled surgeons or smooth, well-dressed defense attorneys, but engineers are not primetime stars. … Continue reading →

  

• Not a Big Bang Machine

  by Jeff Miller, Ph.D. Newscasters often exaggerate in order to get people to read their stories. The more people read their stories, the more attention they get and the more money their news organizations make. An example of this exaggeration … Continue reading →

  

• Human Brain: “Enormous Biochemical Complexity”

  A new biochemical atlas finds consistency, complexity, and precision in the human brain. The Allen Institute for Brain Science has just published its Human Brain Atlas in Nature (Hawlyrycz et al., “An anatomically comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain transcriptome, Nature 489, 20 … Continue reading →

  

• Cheetahs Prosper with Rear-Wheel Drive

  Learn about how cheetahs accelerate from 0 to 60 in 3 seconds, and other wonders of the living world. Cheetah power:  The distribution of muscle fiber types in the rear legs and forelegs of the cheetah allows it to achieve … Continue reading →

  

• Wild Rice, Selective Breeding and Genesis

  Of all the different grains grown around the world, do you know which one is the most grown?  Most people will answer wheat or rice, but it’s neither.  Corn is the number one grain grown around the world.  However, a … Continue reading →

  

• Scientists Store 70 Billion Books on DNA

  by Brian Thomas, M.S. Data storage technology has come a long way since punch cards. But the undisputed king of data density is still DNA. A team of scientists fit 70 billion copies of their genetics book—including page formatting instructions … Continue reading →

  

• Inventors Covet Nature’s Engineering

  Scientists and entrepreneurs can’t get enough of the design solutions found in the living world. Snake-bots:  PhysOrg wrote about “Flexible snake armor:  Biology could inspire systems in engineering with minimized abrasion.”  Snakes slither on all kinds of surfaces; their skin, therefore, is … Continue reading →

  

• It’s (Virtually) Alive!

  by Brian Thomas, M.S. Scientists made a virtual microbe, complete with dozens of interconnected cell functions. But it wasn’t easy. Their creation could be used in two important areas of research. The Stanford-led team of bioengineers watched 128 of their … Continue reading →

  

• Secrets of Spider Silk

  By R. L. David Jolly Most people around the world are deathly afraid of spiders.  Whenever they see one of these eight-legged creatures they generally kill it or run away.  With some spiders, that may be an appropriate response, but … Continue reading →

  

• Body Double: Your Body as a Template for Inventors

  Your body contains a lot of things engineers would like to copy, and not just at the scale of C3P0-like humanoid robots. Pore over this:  Your cell membranes have pores that let good things pass through but block the rest.  … Continue reading →

  

• Genetic Entropy and Human Lifespans

  If the human genome is degrading, shouldn’t lifespans be getting shorter? In today’s feedback, Dr Robert Carter shows how the increase in average human lifespan over the last few centuries is consistent with genetic entropy, and Dr Don Batten answers a skeptic who thinks … Continue reading →

  

• Maple to the Rescue

  The SWAT team surrounds the compound.  An officer tosses a maple seed into an open window and checks the readout on his computer.  The team bursts in and, surprising the terrorists, rescues the hostages safely. This scenario may become a reality, thanks … Continue reading →

  

• Scientific Markers Can Mislead

  In historical sciences, observable phenomena are often used as indicators of past phenomena.  Some recent examples show how these can mislead researchers. Ice cores:  A press release from University of Wisconsin-Madison, echoed on NASA’s Astrobiology Magazine, has climate scientists scrambling.  For decades, … Continue reading →

  

• What Will the Next Biological Breakthrough Be?

  Animal and human life depends, either directly or indirectly, on plant life. And all plant life depends on extraordinarily precise biochemical machines that capture and convert light energy into energy that living cells can use. Researchers at the Argonne National … Continue reading →