Scientists found decades ago that they couldn’t explain how bees fly. Simple math showed the feat was “impossible” given the small size of their wings, a pair of French researchers wrote in 1934.
Since then, the mystery has been partly solved, as researchers have determined that the quick flapping of the wings helps compensate for their [...]

When might chemistry knowledge come in handy? For one thing, you may want to tutor a child or grandchild with homework someday without looking like a loser. Instead of poring over heavy chemistry books or searching out bits and pieces of information in a dictionary or encyclopedia, you can get an overall view of the [...]

Paul Roberts: The end of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World – Copyright 2004 Houghton Mifflin; 389 pages.

In “The end of Oil”, journalist Paul Roberts provides a thorough
review of not only why we need to reduce our need for oil, but why
we need to start weaning ourselves off every other traditional
fossil energy [...]

Professor Neil Straus explains how the model that came first is a molecule that can be both a gene and an enzyme. The answer to the evolutionary dilemma is RNA.
This “RNA World” theory has actually been given new impetus by recent revelations in gene regulation and molecular structural analysis. A host of RNA molecules have [...]