Is It Possible to Engineer a Truly Blue Flower?
In nature, blue is much rarer than you might think.
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In nature, blue is much rarer than you might think.
Who knows, maybe in a few billion years time, someone else’s body will be made out of your atoms.
The palaeontologists who discovered the dino are now studying modern cassowaries to get a better sense of its potential behaviour.
At the very least, it's an earnest attempt at a human emotion.
And you’re afraid of explosions here on Earth? That’s cute.
These are some seriously clever carrot-munchers.
Warning: this article contains an anecdote about reptilian jizz.
Brace your eyeballs for some astonishing astronomical snaps.
The biggest dufuses in the animal kingdom just keep on giving.
This new shark species is only a foot long, glows in the dark, and is very ugly.
HIV transmission is a complex process with factors beyond just who you sleep with and how.
Everything you thought was true up to this point is a LIE.
Something weird is going on with human sperm production.
Rogue planets sound adventurous, like pirates of the final frontier minus the scurvy. The reality is much more depressing.
Like a baseball player running to make a catch, dragonflies are also capable of predicting the trajectory of a moving object, typically its next meal.
Dr. George Church is a real-life Dr. Frankenstein. The inventor of CRISPR and one of the minds behind the Human Genome Project is no longer content just reading and editing DNA—now he wants to make new life.
