The paper is a philosophical argument about whether a pilgrimage can be meaningful in a scientific age.Since a scientific world-view rules out many ideas which are traditionally associated with pilgrimage, such as miracles and the effectiveness of prayer, it seems that pilgrimage might be a practice inconsistent with the modern scientific age.Attem

Abstract CarH is a coenzyme B12-dependent photoreceptor involved in regulating carotenoid biosynthesis.How light-triggered cleavage of the B12 Co-C bond culminates in CarH tetramer dissociation to initiate transcription remains unclear.Here, a series of crystal structures of the CarH B12-binding domain after illumination suggest formation of unfore

The history of mudbrick production and construction in the southern Levant may be dated as far back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A.However, at many of the sites where mudbrick remains were noted, their preservation was poor, so investigation of their production and the related construction techniques in antiquity was precluded.The 7,200 year old (c