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Tyrannosaurs Were Power-Walkers

By Matt Kaplan of Nature magazine The image of a Tyrannosaurus rex racing after a jeep in the 1993 film Jurassic Park inspired a generation's ideas about the extinct predator, but for decades studies have concluded that dinosaurs could not move quickly. An analysis now suggests that although big dinosaurs are unlikely to have been able to run, the animals could instead have reached a fair clip by power-walking

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Genetically Modified Salmon Will Kill Regular Salmon

Escaped GM salmon could breed and pass on their genes in the wild--and those genes could cause weak salmon that eventually die off. The GM salmon companies say they have a solution to keep their fish sterile, but remember: Nature finds a way

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Coming Soon: Genetically Modified, Malaria-Fighting Mosquitoes

Malaria kills one million people a year in the developing world. This is incredibly frustrating, because we can cure malaria. Everyone who dies from it dies simply because we can't get them the proper vaccines or drugs.

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