Some plants have evolved toilets in an effort to gather nitrogen.

The Large Hadron Collider is about to set a record by achieving beam circulation at 3.5 TeV, bringing collisions between protons to 7 TeV center-of-mass energy.

Unlike mammals, individual chicken cells apparently "know" which sex they are at the time of fertilization and they maintain their own male or female identities throughout life.

Just under 3.3 million bacterial genes have been uncovered from the human gut, more than 150 times as many as reside in the entire human genome.