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Where did all the flowers come from? Research is finally bearing 

By Carl Zimmer

The New York Times

Throughout his life, Charles Darwin surrounded himself with flowers. When he was 10, he...

The Gene Puzzle 

Ten years ago, the human genome was medicine’s holy grail. Playing the part of King Arthur’s knights were rival teams of biologists...

The Gene Puzzle.(International Edition)(human genome research) 

Byline: Carl Zimmer; Zimmer is the author of The New Science of Life, which will be published in paperback in July.aa Ten years ago, the human...

Chimps found to cooperate 

One of the hallmarks of being human is cooperation. No other primate exhibits the same kind of helpfulness to others. Humans have made even...

Who was FLO? 

In September 2003 a team of scientists digging in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores unearthed part of an 18,000-year-old skeleton and a...

BAFFLED Brain, The 

In the movie The Matrix, people lie motionless in pods of nutrients while they "dream" that they are living normal lives in the year 1999. Their...

How to Program A Cell 

A lot of today's engineers got their start as kids playing with electronics kits, wiring together resistors or capacitors. Depending on how you put...

The Ultimate Remote Control; One day, our brains might be able to beam our very thoughts wirelessly to the machines around us.(Cover Story) 

Byline: Carl Zimmer Wireless technology lets us talk on cell phones with people thousands of miles away, surf the Web without a cable and...

The Ultimate Remote Control 

Wireless technology lets us talk on cell phones with people thousands of miles away, surf the Web without a cable and control our stereos, DVD...

TENREC TALES 

Link olson loves tenrecs. A biologist at the University of Alaska Museum, Olson flies to the other side of the world to study these strange...