A pumpjack is not a coal mine. No, that's not the opening line to an avant garde poem. It's another way of saying: Coalbed methane mining is not mining for coal. In fact, it's quite different. Coalbed ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — An Oklahoma man is facing charges for a scheme to steal pumpjacks from New Mexico oilfields. Jonathan Stamper is accused of hiring drivers to take apart and move 11 pumping units, ...

Oil well pumpjacks are, in general, pretty dumb pieces of machinery. On any given day, about a million of them bob up and down in oil fields across the U.S., pulling crude and sometimes natural gas up ...

DNA is unwound by a type of “pumpjack” mechanism, similar to the way one operates on an oil rig, a team of scientists suggests. This finding is based on new close-up images of the proteins that unwind ...

UPTON, NY-New close-up images of the proteins that copy DNA inside the nucleus of a cell have led a team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook ...