News

  1. Plants

    Morphinefree Mutant Poppies: Novel plants make pharmaceutical starter

    A Tasmanian company has developed a poppy that produces a commercially useful drug precursor instead of full-fledged morphine, and a research team now reports how the plant does it.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Health & Medicine

    Sleep on It: Fitful slumber tied to diabetes risk

    Disturbed slumber, or sleep apnea, appears to make people more susceptible to certain conditions that lead to diabetes.

    By Diana Parsell
  3. Paleontology

    Big Gulp? Neck ribs may have given aquatic beast unique feeding style

    The fossilized neck bones of a 230-million-year-old sea creature have features suggesting that the animal's snakelike throat could flare open and create suction to pull in prey.