] The discovery was made by chance by two biochemists
] conducting research into drugs for cancer and Alzheimer's
] in a medical laboratory at Vanderbilt University,
] Nashville, Tennessee.

Ask for cures for cancer, get blue roses. Interesting. Gotta love the way certain fields of science can be...

This feels like a good time to remind everyone that we have asked for killer robots, robot servants, and every other type of robot device imaginable.

Telegraph | Scientific breakthrough: the blue rose