In August of 2013 Lyssa and I spotted a most unusual thing on our way up to the front door after grocery shopping, a cicada hawk, which is a wasp that hunts cicadas. This particular speciment could have perched proudly in the palm of my hand and easily stretched from one side to the other.

Here are the pictures.

I don't know what's going on here, so let's just pull it out.

Scientists working in the burgeoning field of nanotechnology at Brookhaven National Laboratory have announced another breakthrough in molecular technology: They figured out how to use DNA to guide the construction of crystals on the molecular scale. It goes a little something like this: Because the nucleotides that link together to create DNA (adenine, thiamine, guanine, and cytosine) have regions with different patterns of electrical charges, individual molecules are attracted to one another and can stick together, rather like complimentary pieces of velcro. Moreover, each nucleotide has more than one region which can create a bond - this is how other parts …