Many researchers have tried to create a mathematical model of how cells pack together to form tissue, but most models have many different complicated factors, and no model is universal. Now researchers have created a functional equation to show how cells pack together to create the eyes of Drosophila, better known as the fruit fly. They hope that the pared-down equation can be applied to different kinds of tissues, leading to advances in regenerative medicine.

With Sony's move to sell music unburdened by digital rights management schemes, all of the Big Four labels have now thrown DRM on the dump heap of history. But Sony and Universal are experimenting with digital watermarking -- an anti-piracy tool that has implications of its own.

DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga urges fellow Democrats in Michigan to vote for Mitt Romney. He has a plan.

Residents living on the shores of Lake Erie are filming mysterious lights in the sky -- so many lately that news and documentary crews are investigating Lake Erie's UFOs. But YouTube may be behind the lake's newfound infamy.

A gas cloud weighing a million Suns is hurtling towards the Milky Way - it will likely trigger stellar fireworks after it collides in 20 to 40 million years