In ink-jet printing it is important that droplets do not stray after being placed on a surface. But if the surface is water-repellent, it can cause these droplets to bounce. High-speed photography ...

Going by the PR blurbage alone, it’d be easy to think Germany’s Spheron are on their “Snap Judgement Mutation” album. Eek. That “eek” is because the SJM has a history. The technical death metal life ...

Neil Broom's How Blind is the Watchmaker? is directed against the “blatant reductionist ideology” that pervades much popular science writing. Broom has in mind not only such works as Richard Dawkins’ ...

THAT enduring metaphor for the randomness of evolution, a blind watchmaker that works to no pattern or design, is being challenged by two European chemists. They say that the watchmaker may have been ...

Penguin has released a new edition of this book which was first published in 1986. Dawkins's exposition of evolution, the "blind watchmaker" of the title, has lost none of its relevance or appeal 15 ...

The watchmaker analogy seems timeless—antiquated, yet always in fashion. The most famous version comes from the English clergyman William Paley’s 1802 book Natural Theology. Just as a watch is made up ...