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09-15-2020

Rhubarb Benefits, Uses, and the Holy Grail of Pie

A traditional summer delicacy for some and a culinary curiosity...

09-11-2020

St. John’s Wort Uses And Gardening Tips

Cheery yellow blooms and powerful medicinal properties make St. John’s...

09-03-2020

Borage Flower (Starflower) Gardening Tips and Uses

Borage flowers provide delightful splashes of blue for your garden....

08-24-2020

5 of the Most Poisonous Tropical Rainforest Plants

Plants, unlike animals, can’t run or hide when predators come...

08-20-2020

Top Uses for Ginseng

[Disclaimer: Nothing in this article should be taken as medical...

08-14-2020

How to Use Andrographis (For Health Benefits)

When it comes to preventative health care and holistic remedies,...

08-10-2020

The Beginner’s Guide to Plant Pots

Houseplants are decorations that liven up any indoor or outdoor...

08-07-2020

Best Echinacea Uses (And Where to Find It)

Echinacea, also known as coneflower, may be the most widely...

08-05-2020

Most Popular Thank You Flowers

Saying thank you can feel like a big undertaking. Maybe...

Researchers have been training honeybees to pick up on the scent of specific crops to seek them out for pollination, and a new study from Cell Press suggests that this strategy is effective.

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09-17-2020

Scientists train honeybees with scent to boost sunflower production

Researchers have been training honeybees to pick up on the scent of specific crops to...

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An invasive beetle that has been destroying Guam's coconut trees for more than a decade has made an unexpected "host shift" to the endangered cycad tree, Cycas micronesica

09-16-2020 Plants

Invasive beetle turns its attention to Guam’s endangered cycad trees

An invasive beetle that has been destroying Guam's coconut trees...

The research indicates that pine needles could serve as a simple and inexpensive source for measuring air pollution.

09-16-2020 Plants

Pine needles can be used to measure air pollution

Evergreen trees hold a record of air quality in magnetic...

The introduction of invasive species through commercial transport is becoming increasingly common, and a new study has identified a potential source of nonnative plant invasions

09-14-2020 Plants

Invasive plant seeds are traveling to the U.S. in shipping containers

The introduction of invasive species through commercial transport is becoming...

Climate change is ramping up the competition for Arctic plants to attract pollinators, according to a new study from the University of Helsinki.

09-14-2020 Plants

Arctic plants face more competition for pollinators as temperatures rise

Climate change is ramping up the competition for Arctic plants...

09-13-2020 Environment

More than 90 percent of Earth’s protected areas are isolated

A new study from the University of Queensland shows just...

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A new study from AAAS reveals that in the Brazilian Amazon, degradation has become more destructive than deforestation.

09-11-2020 Science

Forest degradation is more destructive than deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

A new study from AAAS reveals that in the Brazilian...

Latin America is home to at least a third of the world's biodiversity and is more than twice as rich in plant species as tropical Africa, according to experts at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

09-10-2020 Plants

Latin America contains a third of the world’s biodiversity

Latin America is home to at least a third of...

Scientists exploring the deepest regions of the Great Barrier Reef for the first time have discovered five new species of black corals and sponges.

09-09-2020 Plants

New corals found deep in the Great Barrier Reef

Scientists exploring the deepest regions of the Great Barrier Reef...

A new study from the University of Georgia has demonstrated that two food additives can eliminate foodborne pathogens from tomatoes before they are even harvested

09-08-2020 Plants

New treatment protects tomatoes from Salmonella and E coli

A new study from the University of Georgia has demonstrated...

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A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology reports that some chimpanzees suffer the rest of their lives if they lose their mother before adulthood

09-18-2020 Animals

Chimpanzees who lose their mothers as children suffer for life

A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary...

The research, which was focused on an endangered freshwater turtle species in Australia, suggests that turtles play an unappreciated role in regulating water quality in river systems.

09-17-2020 Animals

Freshwater turtles improve the health of river systems

Turtles improve the health of freshwater ecosystems by scavenging fish...

09-17-2020 Curiosity of the day

Scientists train honeybees with scent to boost sunflower production

Researchers have been training honeybees to pick up on the...

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Today's Video of the Day from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) features a time-lapse of more than 1,000 images captured at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia.

09-19-2020 Environment

The Outlier in Western Australia

Today's Video of the Day from the European Space Agency features a Copernicus Sentinel-2 view of the Vatnajökull ice cap in southeast Iceland.

09-18-2020 Nature

Earth from space: Vatnajökull, Iceland

Today's Video of the Day from the European Space Agency...

Today’s Video of the Day from NASA Goddard describes the first possible example of an intact planet closely orbiting a small dead star.

09-17-2020 Nature

Potential planet found orbiting a dead star

Today's Video of the Day from NASA Goddard describes the...

Today's Video of the Day from NASA Goddard describes how experts are tracking the Sun's magnetic activity cycle, also known as the solar cycle.

09-16-2020 Featured Videos

Finding new ways to track the solar cycle

Today's Video of the Day from NASA Goddard describes how...

Today's Video of the Day from NASA Goddard describes a puzzling new discovery in the way that dark matter behaves in space.

09-15-2020 Science

Dark matter just became even more mysterious

Today's Video of the Day from NASA Goddard describes a...

Today’s Video of the Day from the European Space Agency describes how space missions and spacecrafts are designed.

09-14-2020 Featured Videos

How are space missions designed?

Today's Video of the Day from the European Space Agency...

09-13-2020 Featured Videos

Microfibers from clothing are accumulating in the ocean

Today's Video of the Day from Northumbria University describes the...

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