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Winners of the 3rd Philippine Nuclear Science Olympiad (PNSO), L-R: Lorenzo S. Mercado (5th Place, Philippine Science High School System-Central…

Water restrictions across Colorado. Some irrigation canals will be shut off mid-season here where I live in 2026. This feels…

In the first intron of a gene on chimpanzee chromosome 19 there is a stretch of retroviral DNA 6,915 nucleotides…

The sky is blue on Earth because air molecules scatter blue sunlight in all directions through a process called Rayleigh…

Not too many plants blossom in the middle of summer. But the bottle brush buckeye is reliable shade tolerating plant. …

 2026’s Pumpkin designs are here!(Click to See Full Resolution)Happy Halloween Everyone! As always, I want to see your carvings if…

– Sponsored content – Image by wal_172619 from Pixabay 28 Sept. 2026. Mid-September is the point in the year when…

WHEN I WAS YOUNG, my mum discovered a quandong tree close to our house – the thirty-ninth she had lived…

My amazing mother who is now 80, came to celebrate my 50th birthday. I should already be dead. I am…

Introduction: A journey shaped by seasons Across a quiet night, birds may rise from wetlands, forests, grasslands, and shorelines and…

Seed dispersal is the movement of a seed away from the plant that produced it, followed by its arrival somewhere…

The solar atmosphere is a turbulent and magnetized environment, with the release of magnetic energy readily manifesting as emission across…

We received an intriguing surprise the other night while prepping dinner. We cut open an unassuming bell pepper (Capsicum annuum)…

The yeti, as every schoolboy knows, was introduced to the outside world in 1921 when Charles Howard-Bury,…

The UN’s just-released scorecard on the world’s “Paris Agreement for Nature” is lit up orange and red. Individual countries’ promises…

Hi all! I haven’t updated this page in about 6 years, and yet I still get to interact with people…

In the remote depths of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, scientists have found something astonishing: the world’s largest known fish…

A spoon touching a cup, a voice crossing a room and a guitar string returning to rest all begin with…

A bee disappearing into a small hole in the soil can be easy to misunderstand. It may look as though…

A seed is easy to mistake for an inactive speck. It can sit in a packet, disappear into soil or…

 A terrible headline on a press release made its way through social media the other day, misleading thousands of people. Human…

Attribution: Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Lindman (1856 – 1928) was a Swedish botanist and botanical…

That’s where we’ll end. I wanted to talk about recent discoveries in toads and poison dart frogs too, but it…

A green leaf can look like a permanent part of a tree, until its colour begins to change. A canopy…

Elapid long-chain neurotoxins (LNTxs) exert their toxicity through high-affinity binding to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). Specific residues mediate this process,…

 Hiking through the grassland, you see a plant with pretty pale flowers. But you can’t match it in the plant…

Last week I gave you this skinny piece of bone to have a go at identifying: As it turns out,…

Posted on August 31, 2026 Scientists have discovered five new species of tiny parasitoid wasps in Cyprus. This more than…

Mrs Beeton has 13 apple recipes in her Pudding section alone. Here is one that is sure to be a…

Anolis grahami aquarum (male) As I do like reading about field trips or merely observations from vacations where anoles have…

When temperatures spike, California redwoods slow down photosynthesis, new research has found. This finding has serious implications for the long-term…

 View of the South Branch of the Moose River near Remsen FallsOur last week in the Adirondacks was a stimulation…

Co-author Irina Rotenko An at least eleven‑year‑old female lynx (we call her Aurelija) still reproduces successfully. This May she gave…

Lentiviral transduction is a widely used method for stable genetic modification of human induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPSCs. It…

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Hulton Archive / Getty Images We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing.…

A new image from the Mars Express spacecraft reveals windblown ridges known as yardangs, seen here as wrinkled sections on…

It’s been a while-years- since I’ve written a lengthy taxonomic article on this blog. Unsurprisingly, it will be Nepenthes focused.…

 Jambo! My name is Gaurav Singh-Varma and I am the new research assistant for the Mara Hyena Project based at…

On the shores of Lake Eyasi in Northern Tanzania, a small number of people still hunt and gather their food.…

There’s a new addition to the series of BSBI Handbooks: we are delighted to announce that Wild Roses of Great…

I know that the Turkey Vulture is not everyone’s favourite bird, but I admire them. Even to me, they aren’t…

A voice matters not just to the person who is speaking, but to the people listening, too. A study on…

Last week’s white-flowered waratah was a big, bold pollinator proposition. Something for the birds and marsupials mostly, even though the…

Meet Tom Donlon, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota, who studies the Milky Way’s structure, evolution, and what…

Researchers from Oregon Health & Science University and Massachusetts General Hospital have found that people who reported eating late at…

My book is out! It showed up a week earlier than expected, a pleasant surprise for anyone who pre-ordered a…

Every three to four years, jellyfish researchers from around the world come together for some serious fun: the International Jellyfish…

AP Chemistry Unit 1: Review The eight topics in AP Chemistry Unit 1 can be grouped into three sections, which…

I didn’t follow a recipe, much like my previous attempt where I used kombucha I made it up as I…

AJP went for a walk up Tai Mo Shan four days ago. He saw this snake in the grass from…

On April 8th, 2024, a total solar eclipse will sweep across North America, from Mexico to the Maine-Canadian border. For…

Come deck the halls and craft with us at the Garden. This hands-on workshop is perfect for children ages 6-12,…

 Yours truly in front of a life-sized model of a giant prehistoric scorpion, on exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum…

 IntroductionAs a remarkable continuation of India’s quest for space exploration, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has launched another Chandrayaan…

Rising dramatically from the Atlantic Ocean, Madeira is an island where mountains, forests, gardens, and the sea come together in…

Kelly, K., Megía-Palma, R., Dajčman, U., Blázquez-Castro, S., Pie, M.R. and Žagar, A. (2025). Environmental drivers of scale morphology in…

Please follow and like us:Richard Feynman the father of Quantum Electrodynamics or “OED” realized the significance of Thompson’s double slit…

Everyone is talking about the thrilling discovery of the new feline species in Los Yungas de Bolivia, Leopardus tilcayan. It…

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by Jonathan Latham PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD On July 23rd Senator Rand Paul (chair of the Senate’s Committee on…

For Immediate ReleaseContact:  Amina Sharma, California Native Plant Society, asharma@cnps.org One in five pollinator species in the United States is at risk…

Demons get such a bad rap these days. And… all other days, I suppose. But look at this cutie! Surely…

Hello all, welcome to yet another blog where I’ll be explaining rocket science and breaking the concepts into simple principles…

usgsbiml:Parasite.  Nest parasite to be exact.  Formerly in the genus Psithyrus, these bees are now in the genus Bombus, with the…

Thinking about how animals mate, one might at first think about the way that mammals do it. But what do…

The Spooky Vibe: Broken-down school buses, smiling scarecrows, mist, and sinister countdowns.   The Psychological Benefit: Processing Grief & Situational…

One: the article I mentioned writing last year for the Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide is out; print copies have…

If you follow any wildlife or nature accounts on social media, then you may have noticed an influx of posts…

A shooting star isn’t really a star, it’s usually a small piece of rock or dust burning up as it…

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If you have not use the iNaturalist app to enter plant photographs and location information you haven’t had the opportunity…

Let’s talk about green parenting! 🌱   If you have kids, convenience rules … WE GET IT! But if you’re looking…

California AB 2244 is law and marketing executives at Organic food companies are preparing to buy new mansions. Because if…

Katharine Murray Lyell’s book, A Geographical Distribution of All the Known Ferns, was published by John Murray (who was also Charles…

Research assistants (RA) are the backbone to many projects happening inside the departments of Botany and Zoology. Their roles can…

Scientists found that past extinctions help us understand why species disappear but may not predict extinction in the future. Introduction …

Carving a scary face in a pumpkin is a common Halloween custom. The tradition appears to be one that we…

  Good morning!  Our main news today is that we are mounting a challenge of DEFRA’s regulations that relate to burning…

Venus has no moon, but a recent study suggests it probably had one for nearly 2 billion years before Venus…

The New York Botanical Garden is a museum of plants, an educational institution, and a scientific research organization in the…

Dear Friends, I have been doing blogs on Blogger/Blogspot for so long that it seems really strange not to be doing…

Sharing perspectives from the hubXchange 2026 Roundtable: “Assembling the data stack: what pharma needs from external knowledge in the age…

A bit of ‘cheating’ here as I relocated my bryophyte specimens from my first venture into bryology back in 2006…

These dogs LOVE pulling sleds. They bark and howl with as the equipment gets set up. One morning in winter…

We are continuing our plate tectonics theme with “The continental jigsaw puzzle; can you reassemble a super-continent from a ‘jigsaw…

The Alcazar de los Reyes Christianos (Alcazar of the Christian Kings) blends the formality of royal palace gardens with the…

BOSTON, Sept. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — For decades, Bigfoot believers have chased shaky photos and grainy footage that never…

Mitreola luongii  Moriwak., Tagane & V.S.Dang,in Moriwak, Tagane, Pham, Souladeth, Vongthavone, Kongxaisavath, Phonepaseuth, Naito, Yamazaki, Lenh et Dang, 2026. AbstractA new species of Mitreola…

Tweet At 2700 m above sea-level on the northern slopes of an un-named mountain. This elfin forest is very humid…

In the forest around Bossou, Guinea, a respiratory epidemic during the 2003 dry season killed five of the community’s 19…

Grazing animals like cattle and sheep may be quietly reshaping mountain slopes, according to a new study led by the…

 MICHELIA CHAMPACA L.Systematic Position:  Division: Phanerogams     Sub-div.: Angiosperms         Class: Dicotyledons              Sub-class: Polypetalae                    Series: Thalamiflorae                        Order:…

 I was invited by the fine folks in Digital Marketing at DreamWorks Animation to create a drawing of my choice…

It is fall, and even though not much changes here, the light becomes low and golden. I feel like every…

Prosthechea brassavolae is an orchid (Orchidaceae) in the subfamily Epidendroideae. This species is part of a multispecies group known…

The Buddhists say grief is the price we pay for love. On Friday night the wounds I had just managed…

Nearly 2 million years ago, a leopard in Africa sank its teeth into the face of an early human. This…