We chose DMF because of its natural origin and the fact that we could easily administer it in the diet, but there might be even better candidates for future clinical use.

BBC: NEWS | Health | Food extract boosts cancer drug

But there's also a natural way to get your hands on it--dig it out of the ground in Wyoming. (The natural origin may or may not endear this chemical to the greenies.) The primary use of soda ash is to make glass.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Darwin, who published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, came fourth in a poll run by the BBC in 2002 to find the public's greatest Briton of all time.

BBC: Darwin's Beagle ship replica plan

And Endless Forms at the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge, considers how Darwin's ideas penetrated the consciousness of the great artists of the era, inspiring visual representations of the struggle for existence, of natural attraction and sexual selection, and the origin and descent of man.

BBC: Friday 11 September: Darwin special

In summary, Dr Saetre and his colleagues have vindicated Dobzhansky and thus confirmed a mechanism for the origin of species that is directly caused by natural selection, rather than being an accidental by-product of it.

ECONOMIST: Evolution

The short answer is: calling into question whether the processes of random variation and natural selection are all we really need in order to understand the origin of species.

FORBES: Epigenetics: The Revolution That Wasn't

The origin of the blue-chip meteorite market was a 1995 natural history auction at Phillips in New York, for which an entertainment manager named Darryl Pitt selected some 15 meteorites from his personal collection and photographed them as if they were masterpieces of modern art.

FORBES: Hot Rocks

One IGCP project in 2000 was even at the origin of a new field: medical geology, the science dealing with the impact of our natural environment on human and animal health.

UNESCO: Open Access to Scientific Information