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I’ve been rather distracted by PhD work and recreational entomology but have made a few botanical outings. An late winter…

A few weeks ago we published a paper that was in the works for a long time, so long in…

Cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) has fundamentally transformed our understanding of the molecular machinery that governs life. For decades, structural biology was…

The city of Rabat, capital of Morocco, is a Unesco World Heritage site, and the Jardins d’Essai Botaniques, literally meaning…

 Jambo! My name is Taylor, and I am the new Research Assistant (R.A.) at Serena Camp. I recently graduated from…

Last month, NASA chief Jared Isaacman ripped off the Band-Aid on the space agency’s back-to-the-moon agenda, calling for a large…

Tweet Top: Myrianthus arboreus, Debregeasia salicifolia, Poikilospermum suaveolens. Bottom: Dendrocnide meyeniana, Urera baccifera, Touchardia latifolia. Brightly coloured or fleshy fruit are…

African Jacana, Letaba, Kruger Park, South Africa, November 2018 Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Sigiriya area, Sri Lanka, March 2025 Bronze-winged Jacana, Kaeng…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the United States’ top public health official, recently claimed some religious groups avoid the measles, mumps…

Botany Digest: Power Point Presentation by Dr. T. A. Gitte on “Hutchinson’s System of Classification” Power Point Presentation by Dr.…

Congratulations, Zooniverse! Today we have reached an extraordinary milestone: 3 million volunteers contributing to people-powered research around the world. From…

There’s a new contender for the universe’s earliest first-generation stars. A bright clump seen about 450 million years after the…

Hymenocallis is a genus of plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. Containing over 60 species, they are…

UK residents put out enough bird food each year to feed more than 3 times the entire populations of garden…

A reconstruction of the giant octopusYohei Utsuki/Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University While dinosaurs ruled the land, Cretaceous…

Registration for this event has now closed. On Thursday 2nd January at 11am and until 1pm there will be a…

While the autumn weather is now knocking furiously on our door, we look back at a warm and sunny fieldwork…

NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected more than 20 carbon-containing compounds — including seven never before seen on Mars — in…

Striped Coralroot, Corallorhiza striata (Orchidaceae). #coralroot #stripedcoralroot #corallorhiza #corallorhizastriata #orchid #orchidaceae #plants #flowers #botany #wildflowers #plantid #plantidentification (at Leavenworth, Washington)https://www.instagram.com/p/ByloyiUA1L_/?igshid=14533u3hxj1mc…

AJP spotted this bird in the New Territories at the end of winter there. In our time in 1960s Hong…

In high school chemistry, we learn that Covalent bonds involve the sharing of one or more pairs of electrons between two atoms. We…

 I was recently on the expedition class Viking Octantis for a cruise along the Chilean coast. The ship staff included…

 FeedSpot’s official opening image to its listing of the 15 Best UK Nature Blogs in 2025 (© FeedSpot) Ever since…

Energy is one of the most important resources for humanity in the 21st century, and electricity is the most common…

Clusters of Cenchrus ciliaris (buffelgrass) with whitish flowerheads in ArubaTo say that the southern Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and…

By Ann Sylph Librarian at the Zoological Society of London (now retired) There are many ‘hidden’ or forgotten women who…

Parker Probe to SunThe NASA spacecraft is closer to the Sun than ever before, entering its atmosphere, known as the…

The Gather and Sow: April 2026 newsletter is out, just in time for Easter. We write about betalains, the pigments…

ORIGIN OF LIFE Big-Bang Theory :                             Proposed by Abbe Lemaitre. According to this theory, the universe originated about 15 billion…

So, not only is funding strict, but funding is overwhelmingly given to the oldest scientists, as they are more capable…

We can’t thank our 2022 sponsors enough for their support of the Madison Fling! For their financial support and in-kind…

A Nightmare Catcher flitters through the rainforests of Bolivia, sticky net in hand.Some say she feeds on nightmares, her gut…

Please follow and like us:Einstein’s Explanation of the UnexplainableIn Maxwell’s mathematical formulation of electromagnetism, he defined light as a propagating…

No matter how much I learn about the garden, there’s always more to know. To plug the (many!) gaps in…

• It is the science that deals with the processes and regulations in the prenatal growth and development of an…

by Jonathan Latham, PhD Newly released written testimony provided by Robert Garry to the Senate’s Committee on the Origins Of…

THE CREVICE INTENSIVEThey’re not a fad; they are here to stay. Crevice Gardens– like miniature mountains with small plants- are now…

Scorpions, tough Chelicerata arachnids, well known for their association with the one of the most hostile, hottest environments on earth……

A conclusion is simply the place where you get tired of thinking ~ Dan Chaon, Stay AwakeHello all, Happy Basant Panchami,…

 A very large, very old shrub blooms every year about this time no matter what the winter weather has been…

Watch these video and answer questions. https://www.playposit.com/play/684364/Gordon-Ramsey-Shark-Finning [Disclaimer: The content in this RSS feed is automatically fetched from external sources.…

To start 2025, I’m going big. I’m consolidating the biggest mysteries of the universe into a blog post! These five…

There is a growing body of research evidence suggesting plant psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy could be useful not only for the treatment…

Back in October 2014, Asha de Vos, a Sri Lankan marine biologist, took the stage at TEDGlobal to deliver a six-minute speech called “Why…

Mini bottle Rocket You’ll need Small 500ml bottle – empty A cork – this must fold very tightly inside the…

Fevertrees do need regular disturbance to persist. They are not a large, robust tree by any means and can easily…

Figure 1: The grey wolf (Canis Lupus) We’ve all been there, trying to get some out of reach object only to…

https://www.fondriest.com/news/buffalos-new-data-buoy-tracks-lake-eries-extreme-weather.htm The post Buffalo’s New Data Buoy Tracks Lake Erie’s Extreme Weather appeared first on Lake Scientist. [Disclaimer: The content…

Spring flowers at the allotmentSince I’ve been behind, so, so behind with sharing photos of my plot, here’s a collection…

Anglers have been asked to report catches and sightings of an invasive species of salmon in Scottish rivers.Pink salmon are…

During the Obama administration, the credibility of the US Centers for Disease Control went into serious decline. Though it only…

In response to questions such as ‘what plant is that?’ we need to keep in mind the uncertainty relating to…

ON THIS DAY IN – 0064 – The Great Fire of Rome began.And now some more recent news from the CFZ…

Researchers analyzed marine sediments to determine the weathering patterns over the last two billion years. Introduction Have you ever watched…

When you plant a native plant, you might find it spreads aggressively around the yard, crowding out  other plants in…

I headed out a week prior with a friend who had never seen the rookery to scout for the event.…

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Spring is one of the most exciting times in the garden, when our perennial plants start to poke their heads…

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on January 12th, 2023 One small step for man, one giant step for Bigfoot: Fremont artist’s…

FAIR data is a defining component for a future-proofed pharma or life science enterprise. But what is FAIR data, and…

 Wake Robin Trillium (Trillium erectum), a precious spring ephemeralWithin you is a remembrance of being participant in the natural world.…

The specimen is a lower jaw. No skull, no limb bones, nothing postcranial at all. And yet this fragment of…

Following on from looking at metamorphic rocks last week, today we investigate an exceptional piece of slate – ‘Every rock…

Golden rain tree. San Gabriel Mountains from the Bauer Lawn. MagnoliasView from the MeadowbrookView from the Meadowbrook [Disclaimer: The content in this…

  I thought last year was a great experience to push my artistic skills out of my comfort zone, and…

Abstract A new species of Balsam, Impatiens pfutserensis S.Singh, B.Singh & M.Bhuyan, belonging to Impatiens sect. Racemosae Hook.f. & Thomson, is described herein from the Phek District of…

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

It was 0758 when the earthquake hit on Wednesday. I was in the kitchen of my hostel in Taipei, Taiwan…

Editorial note: WUWT is publishing this paper as a contribution to open technical discussion, not as an endorsed or settled…

Lady’s-slipper OrchidImage courtesy of Rob Still & Chris Gibsonhttps://plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9h.xh1We’ve just published the latest issue of British & Irish Botany, the online, Open…

Personally, I consider sea serpents more credible than lake monsters. It’s the logistics of it all. The…

The electronics inside your phone, your car, and every satellite currently orbiting Earth share one critical weakness: heat. Push them…

Can you maintain and honour a landscape design after the inevitable demise of the designer and the equally inevitable decline…

Imagine escaping to an island. You’d need to outsmart new predators, seize novel food sources, and cope without escape routes—perhaps…

I’m currently on a walking trip in Japan that has turned into more of a walking-plus-bus-and-train trip. (Walking is great!…

The reason for flowers is reproduction. Three major parts of a flower function to achieve this purpose. First, the gynoecium…

Arthropod-like organisms termed wadudu (singular mdudu) are abundant across the planet and include multi-limbed, terrestrial taxa that resemble spiders, millipedes…

Dear Colleagues, We are seeking biologists, political scientists, and language scientists (all broadly construed) to participate in a survey about the barriers…

Over the years I have heard a lot of great things about Brazilian spinach.  Brazilian spinach is a perennial leaf…

Welcome to Zygoma. This is my personal blog and the views expressed here are not those of my employer (the…

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  April is such an amazing month, it’s worth asking, “what’s not in bloom?” Clearly, many plants do not flower in April, but at UBC Botanical Garden…

Anole Annals is actually a nice case study in how a field-specific online community formed around a scientific blog in…

Ted Hoff (STS 1954) and the 2026 Regeneron STS finalists. Chris Ayers Photography/Licensed by Society for Science The Regeneron Science…

Nestled in the rolling landscape of LaGrange, Georgia, Hills & Dales Estate is one of America’s most enchanting historic gardens,…

Co-author Irina Rotenko High mortality in wolf pups is a well‑known demographic bottleneck that strongly shapes wolf populations worldwide. Belarus…

Dr Ujjaini Dasgupta’s group is looking for highly motivated students with PhD in Chemical/​Biological Sciences for the position of Project…

A lot of the time I can be shown an endangered plant, and not realise what it is, because I…

In boreal forests, many hares adopt white winter coats before the snow arrives. In a snowless landscape, these white hares lack camouflage against…

A vivid sequence of celestial events is set to transform the night sky into a moving spectacle, where a hard-to-spot…

By Nancy Heuler Creating a home garden with California native plants can be fun and rewarding, while bringing wildlife and…

 Hello again from Serena camp!   Exciting things have been happening with all three of our clans since we last…

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inspect-my-insect: undereyelouisvuittons: How can ants have farms? They’re too small to control the chickens and the pigs What’s that ya…

Let’s face it. As a general rule, vultures – and especially the Old World vultures – are not a good-looking…

Singh, A. et al After a landmark investigation into their funding sources, MoTech Labs Ltd has been accused of cashing…

From time to time, a seedling will do a little fake-out, making me think that I’m getting one kind of…

Name: Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha (Senior AI/ML Research Scientist) Location: University of Missouri-Kansas City Zooniverse projects: Galaxy Zoo, Galaxy Zoo: Weird…

Hummingbirds are the high-performance athletes of the avian world. With heart rates topping 1,200 beats per minute, they are biological…

Bentham and Hooker classification George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker – Two English taxonomists who were closely associated with the…