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See the world in close-up in these intricate images of nature
Cross-section of a Cosmic Orange aster flower Igor Siwanowicz These exquisite images reveal some of the intricate views…
Meet the Plant Hacker Creating Flowers Never Seen (or Smelled) Before
The money he earned doing that was enough to put Cocioba through the first couple of years of…
Plants laced with a variety of fungi are more popular with bees
A bee pollinating a squash flower Roman Kýbus/Alamy Plants treated with diverse species of fungi that live on…
Intricate 18th-century illustrations of stunning flora and fauna
The rough green snake (Opheodrys aestivus) Bodleian Library Publishing, University of Oxford, 2024 These remarkable and intricate illustrations…
Why surrounding your plants with crushed eggshells won’t deter slugs
Broken eggshells around young plants … but will they stop the slugs? BIOSPHOTO/Alamy For as long as I…
Researchers Give Animal Cells the Ability to Photosynthesize for the First Time
Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated over…
Could seaweed be the ultimate carbon capture solution?
An island of floating brown Sargassum seaweed Andrey Nekrasov/Alamy The big question, in the mid-21st century, wasn’t how…
Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?
There are few things more irritating in everyday life than getting something stuck between your teeth. Thankfully, we…
World’s largest tree is also among the oldest living organisms
Some 47,000 trees in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest are in fact a single, ancient organism named Pando George…
Fibre: The surprisingly simple supernutrient with far-reaching health benefits
New studies are showing ever more reasons to eat up your greens Alvarez/Getty Images When it comes to our…