Pollination with precision: How flowers do it
Next Mother's Day, say it with an evolved model of logistical efficiency — a ...

New technique reveals unseen information in DNA code
This image shows the differences in chemical structure of the 5-methylcytosi (5mC) base (left) from ...

Ancient giant turtle fossil revealed
This is a reconstruction of Carbonemys preying upon a small crocodylomorph. Picture a turtle ...

Abundance of rare DNA changes following population explosion may hold clues to common diseases
One-letter switches in the DNA code occur much more frequently in human genomes than ...

Unhurtful Thoughts: A Preoccupied Brain Produces Pain-Killing Compounds
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Apple to Use Only Green Power for Main Data Center
By Poornima Gupta(Reuters) - Apple Inc plans to power its main U.S. ...

Job Killer? Try Bottom Line Booster: Workplace Safety Inspections Save Money, Jobs, Limbs
Image courtesy of iStockphoto/lisafx Costly safety upgrades, nitpicky government inspection and resulting fines are ...

Most Users Are App Freeloaders
When's the last time you treated yourself to a new mobile app? Okay, when's ...

Buried microbes exist at limit between life and death
Sediment 30 metres below the Pacific seafloor is so nutrient-poor that microbes barely fuel ...

Plutonium signature captured after 50 years of trying
The complex properties of radioactive plutonium-239 made its structure hard to analyse – until ...