Design features

Baby brains are programmed for learning any language in the world and many other things, even before birth.

Ironclad beetle laminated elytra have special joins that confer extra toughness, and might inspire aircraft joints.

With a heaven-sent scent sensor, why settle for less?

Our response to David Attenborough’s TV programmes ‘Conquest of the Skies’. The evidence shows beetles, birds, and other fliers were created; they did not evolve.

Sharks thriving—in an active underwater volcano

From summer gold to winter blue, reindeer eyes are designed to optimize vision during the winter twilight “blue hour”.

Hot spider silk

Gecko ‘glue’

A new drone using flapping ‘wings’ for lift has many advantages.

The single-celled slime mold Physarum polycephalum has a memory, and makes smart decisions, yet lacks a central nervous system.

Amazing eyes show amazing design and confound evolution

Wallace’s flying frog can glide up to 15 metres (50 feet).

Does evolution give a sound explanation for the arrival of acoustics? They say the earth was mostly quiet for billions of years, but is that an argument from silence?

A farmer plants a seed. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how …

Recent discoveries about heme pose problems for evolutionary theory

Wilderness adventurer and photographer Bill Boehm tells how nature reveals its creator