Professor Mark Chase of the Jodrell Laboratory says, "We may be surrounded by many more murderous plants than we think." Including the revered petunia, that handily traps insects. Noted in Doomwatch legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.

NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of asteroids and comets on a collision course with Earth. This spacecraft mission was recommended by Sunstroke author David Kagan, a US aerospace engineer.

Researchers discovered that flowering plants--including food crops--beat out competitors by evolving more efficient 'leaf plumbing' to make their rate of photosynthesis higher than other plants. Noted in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.

Atlantis Resources Corp is to test the world's biggest tidal turbine in the rough waters off the Orkney Islands next year in preparation for Scotland's plan to use ocean energy for half a million homes by 2020.

"We're preprogrammed to reach out," Dr. de Waal writes. "Empathy is an automated response over which we have limited control." The only people emotionally immune to another's situation, he notes, are psychopaths.

For the first time in history, two butterflies have survived the chrysalis stage of development and spread their wings as fully grown Painted Lady butterflies in microgravity; This (ISS) outreach experiment is for students on the ground to follow ..,

You can find lectures, videos and interviews on all types of scientific subjects, from computer science to engineering to life sciences to physics. Here are 100 killer iTunes feeds for serious science geeks.

Alternative energy is on just about everyone's minds these days, and it's evident in the news stories we've been seeing around the web. These are some of the most interesting stories that have caught our attention recently.

A microquasar is composed of a massive star and a massive compact object, like a black hole. As the pair orbit one another, the powerful gravitational field of the black hole pulls matter from its stellar companion.

Australian scientists are working to breed a sheep that belches less, as they look for ways to reduce harmful methane emissions from the country's woolly flocks, a researcher said Sunday.