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07-04-2019

How To Plan and Start Growing an Herb Garden

Diving into the world of herbs is fascinating. Herbs can...

06-29-2019

What Is Terrace Farming?

People around the world have discovered clever ways to farm...

06-28-2019

Top 5 Lavender Plant Uses

If you’ve ever walked past a lavender plant, you’ll know...

Researchers have mapped the genome of the poppy plant which could help make effective pain treatment production easier and widely accessible.

06-20-2019

History of the Poppy Flower

The history of the poppy flower is a rich one....

06-19-2019

How Do Pineapples Grow?

The pineapple is a tropical fruit that travels far in...

06-15-2019

What Is Chaga? Intro to the Alaskan Medicinal Mushroom

If you haven’t heard of chaga, you aren’t alone. This...

06-07-2019

Guide to Identifying Tree Fungus (and the 3 Most Common Types)

What’s growing on that tree? This is a question you...

06-05-2019

Top 5 Uses For Bamboo Plants

Belonging to a subfamily of grass, bamboo is one of...

05-25-2019

What Is the Best Rope Plant?

Plants have provided humans with some of the most important...

A new study led by Brown University has revealed that many conifer species will be threatened with extinction by 2070 as a result of climate change.

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07-15-2019

Many conifer species are on the road to extinction from climate change

A new study led by Brown University has revealed that many conifer species will be...

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A fossilized lily discovered near Crato, Brazil is about 115 million years old, according to researchers. (Image credit: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)

07-14-2019 Plants

Fossilized lily grew 115 million years ago in Brazil

A stone quarry in Brazil unearthed a breathtaking find: a...

Two plants which have not shared a common ancestor in 400 million years still use the same defense against an aggressive pathogen that causes serious disease.

07-12-2019 Plants

Plants that diverged 400 million of years ago share the same pathogen defense

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered that two...

A new study has found that wildfires have a negative impact on key night-time pollinators: moths.

07-12-2019 Environment

Wildfires negatively impact nighttime moth pollination

Pollinators like bees and butterflies often get the spotlight in...

Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered a gene that determines how far that plant roots will grow into the soil.

07-11-2019 Plants

Newly identified gene will help scientists create plants with deeper roots

It has been well-documented that plant roots push through the...

A new study is the first global assessment of how current trends in farming practices may be affecting pollinators and the crops that depend on them.

07-11-2019 Environment

Farming trends threatening pollinators and the crops that depend on them

A new study from an international team of researchers is...

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The moth caterpillar secretes an acid from special glands which prevents plants like the poinsettia from secreting latex stored in special canals in their leaves.

07-10-2019 Animals

Caterpillars use an anti-predator defense when feeding on sticky plants

The moth caterpillar (Theroa zethus) has evolved an anti-predator defense...

A new study has revealed that hundred-year-old Sitka spruce trees growing on Vancouver Island contain a remarkably high amount of genetic variation.

07-10-2019 Plants

These massive, old trees were found to have thousands of genetic mutations

A study from the University of British Columbia has revealed...

A new study has found that without the help of grazing animals, plant domestication may not have been possible.

07-08-2019 Plants

Ancient megafauna helped drive plant dispersal prior to domestication

As humans shifted from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to permanent settlements,...

A new Vegebot has been programmed to harvest lettuce with machine learning.

07-07-2019 Plants

‘Vegebot’ can harvest lettuce thanks to machine learning

Thanks to a machine learning crash course in the lab,...

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It seems that a mix of an over-friendly bias towards grazing as well as an incompetent misunderstanding of Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit diet led to the extinction of the population.

07-16-2019 Animals

Decline of Washington’s pygmy rabbits was due to incompetence and grazing

Recently, I reported on the reintroduction of Washington State’s pygmy...

Different parts of sharks are utilized for household products, such as shark skin for leather and shark cartilage for dietary supplements and alternative medicine.

07-16-2019 Animals

Sharks might have been used to make your household products

As the movement towards organic products grows, more and more...

From meager beginnings, Auroraceratops rugosus went on to be recognized as one of the most well-documented early dinosaurs to date.

07-16-2019 Animals

Small triceratops relative was horned and walked on two feet

A few fossils may be all that’s left of a...

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The Northwest Passage Project

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Creating plants to help fight climate change

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07-11-2019 Science

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3D printing skin and bone for astronauts

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