| Turtle egg rescue at space center billed success By MARCIA DUNN 2010-09-08T17:02:30ZCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The turtle rescue effort at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is winding down.... hosted.ap.org |
Natural Selection Cuts Broad Swath Through Fruit Fly Genome Fruit fly researchers showed that natural selection can change a species by making certain genes more common, rather than waiting for a powerful mutation to show up and sweep the species. feeds.nytimes.com |
Observatory: Blue Whales With Pearly Whites, Once Upon a Time Scientists have found the first genetic evidence for the loss of teeth in the common ancestor of all baleen whales. feeds.nytimes.com |
Letters: Newton the Polymath (1 Letter) Letter to the editor. feeds.nytimes.com |
Wordplay: Numberplay: Scrambled Controls A set of puzzles where a goal has to be achieved blindly and in spite of random perturbations. feeds.nytimes.com |