Each of us has enough DNA to reach from here to the sun and back, more than 300 times. How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Histones are a ...

This study presents a model for the origin of the Eskisehir, Turkey, sepiolite deposits. Known as “meerschaum” in the gem trade when it occurs as compact masses (especially nodules), sepiolite is ...

350 years old, Robert Hooke's Micrographia is a hidden treasure in Kew's library — one you may not expect to find there. Among the library’s botanical riches, there are a few items which are not ...