Island muddy pond, photo credit: Christ 73

Abiogenesis, aka Spontaneous Generation

The supposed development of living organisms from nonliving matter. Also called autogenesis, spontaneous generation. Medical Dictionary: The Free Dictionary.com Have you gotten to study about Louis Pasteur yet? Besides his work on preventing germs from spoiling your milk (Pasteurization) and immunization, he is most famous for proving that spontaneous generation Read more…

Newton fractal, image credit: Solkoll

Laws of Physics

[First published in May, 2012] Why can we describe the world with “laws”? “There are four major concepts in science: facts, hypotheses, laws, and theories,” Coppinger told Live Science. “Laws are descriptions — often mathematical descriptions — of natural phenomenon; for example, Newton’s Law of Gravity or Mendel’s Law of Read more…