Pollination with precision: How flowers do it

Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 11:01 in Biology & Nature

Next Mother's Day, say it with an evolved model of logistical efficiency — a flower. A new discovery about how nature's icons of romance manage the distribution of sperm among female gametes with industrial precision helps explain why the delicate beauties have reproduced prolifically enough to dominate the earth.

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