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Where have the botanists in the kitchen been? In our writing rooms, working on other ways to bring you this…

I knew I was in trouble in Alaska my first fall. The park starts to shut down mid September and…

In addition to being a staple of science fiction, the concept of megastructures has long been the subject of serious…

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on January 30th, 2023 The question of whether Bigfoot exists has been the subject of speculation,…

We’ve thrown a lot of Fling information at you during the past few months (and years 😉 ), and it…

Imagine holding a tiny piece of the glowing ocean in your hands. With PyroPet, that magical experience is now possible.…

This month’s open thread for climate related topics. The post Unforced Variations: Mar 2026 first appeared on RealClimate. [Disclaimer: The…

In 2020-21, who didn’t miss seeing friends and extended family, or dream of being able to celebrate with them again? Because outdoors is the…

There are grooves on ancient human teeth that look like someone spent time working between their molars with a stick.…

Climate change is real, and it cannot be solved by mere tree-planting activities that end up only as photo documentation.…

Thanks to Grace at DBG and PlantSelect.If you know anyone new to this, which is basically essential in rock gardening…

This summer I started experimenting with using watercolors in the hope to start doing more drawing while out hiking and…

Everything You Need to Know About Motorola Android 17 Beta in IndiaMotorola has officially begun rolling out the Android 17…

 As many of TPP’s reader know Magnolia’s and nagnoliid flowers are a great favorite.  The collection  includes two species of…

I flew past Mount Everest in 2016. Her perfectly shaped snow-capped summit jutting out of the fluffy white clouds on…

(Edgar Oliver, Pexels) 25 Sept. 2025. Science and Enterprise, formerly a daily news report on the intersection of science and…

If you’re looking for magic in your life, look no further than vegetative propagation. Take a snip off a shrub,…

Readers will no doubt be familiar with the name of Ivan T. Sanderson who, along with Bernard…

The solar corona and solar wind are turbulent plasma environments where energy transfer from large-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluctuations to smaller…

Both caterpillars and adult moths are physically adapted to living within the slippery interior of the pitcher walls. Microscopic analyses…

Flightless birds show a deterministic reduction in keel size and sternum curvature as body mass increases. When birds give up…

The hellraiser mite. Photo by Shou Saito, CC BY-NC Voting closes at midnight for the Entomological Society’s Bug of the…

True Blue Flowers at the allotment /part 1You know I love blue flowers, but you might have not noticed how…

Clearly, much remains to be learnt about the anatomy of dinosaur brains and what that anatomy does, or does not,…

Remember Guruji Mahendra Kumar Trivedi, the “Enlightened and miraculous being” with 676 publications in scientific journals? His patented form of “Biofield Energy…

Wallflower is a plant we used to see in cottage gardens a generation ago, bringing a splash of yellow and…

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

Scorpion venom is extremely expensive and dangerous, but it also has fascinating medical applications, particularly in regulating biological mechanisms due…

Bats are important pollinators in the tropics. Queen of the night, Epiphyllum oxypetalum, bat-pollinated cactus of the American tropics, now grown…

Happy ending: they both lived to see another day thanks to the screen between them! Thanks to Miriam Lipsky for…

Posted on September 26, 2025 NASA’s confirmed exoplanet total has reached 6,000. The milestone is tracked by the NASA Exoplanet…

If you’ve visited Winterbourne recently and wandered through the lean-to glasshouse, you’ll no doubt have found yourself marvelling at the…

Co-authors: Louise Giovannelli and Irina Rotenko Usually, from May until the end of September, wolves engage in territorial marking only…

The mysterious Lady of Elche bust was discovered in Spain in the late 19th century (Image credit: Getty Images)QUICK FACTSName:…

Our best attempt at a selfie, however I also think this photo captures our current spontaneityWhen last I checked in,…

I used to think it was merely a post-COVID19 hiccough, but the extensive delays in receiving reviews for submitted manuscripts…

Cancer is one of the most complex and instructive human diseases, representing a dramatic disruption of normal cellular processes that…

Garden Calendars for Southern CaliforniaSeasonal plants_planting schedule.pdfYearly Planting Guide Monthly Gardening Guide for Southern California and Similar Climates – EtsyPosts…

Our Happy Zebra clan’s den is located very far off-road. When we first arrived at this location, there was a…

March 3rd brings a rare, striking, and rather ominous spectacle to the nighttime sky in the form of a blood…

I am happy to announce that I will co-author a two-volume monograph dedicated to the carnivorous plant genus Heliamphora, the…

Which bird species do you think is the biggest attraction to visitors of your lodge (please only name one species)?…

The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021 and on active duty since 2022, has gotten its legs viewing already…

How many of Britain’s endemic plants have you seen, or even heard of? These are the plants which grow only…

Happy 2026 from the Zooniverse team! As we look back on 2025, there’s a lot worth celebrating in the Zooniverse…

Figuring out which bacteria or other nutrients your gut needs may one day be as simple as running detailed computer…

“A mat of long, thin filaments that connect an estimated 90 per cent of land plants” (Nakaya 2018)Welcome to the wood-wide…

Research published today in the journal Science Advances shows that part of the answer lies in a subtle but consequential shift…

Crushed basalt being spread in a field trial of enhanced rock weathering for carbon dioxide removal in Queensland, AustraliaPaul Nelson…

In a garden setting, a successful groundcover is a plant that is durable and adaptable, spreads readily, and fills in…

There are periods when you wait quietly for good news to knock. Then there are those rare, wonderful times when…

Prehistoric humans and Neanderthals didn’t just interbreed, they did so with a consistent sex bias, as male Neanderthals and female…

For sale in Australia perennial vegetables, heirloom vegetable seeds, edible herb plants, organic berry plants, and a few non-edible plants…

In the days when colour printing was extremely expensive, the Avicultural Society had special appeals for funds to support the…

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Interested in a career in horticulture, gardening, forestry or landscape architecture? UBC Botanical Garden’s Horticulture Training Program (HTP) is the…

 A typically-patterned male northern bushbuck in Senegal (© Lucy Keith-Diagne/Wikipedia – CC BY 4.0 licence) Bushbucks are the smallest members…

Calumet Region III: Symbolic representation of the hemi-marsh and fragmented landscapeCotton thread, cotton ground, collaged fabricMounted on linen Science Art…

Inspiring Events and Garden ToursSocieties organize a rich calendar of activities that inspire creativity and broaden horticultural horizons. Members enjoy…

Vasconcelos, B.D., Camurugi, F., Mudrek, J.R., Brandão, R.A. and Santana, D.J. (2025). Rivers and spatial distance are drivers of genetic…

PSLV-C53 in LaunchpadISRO is on a mission PSLV-C53 on June 30, 2022. It is scheduled to launch at 6 pm…

Back in 2020 Juniper wrote a post, 7 Plants You’ll Be Seeing More Of As Model Species. A model plant…

Zoologylearningpoint channel link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC48ShFOo6BcplE7_9DiytHQ Zoologylearningpoint channel’s Trailer= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2GrGG53tsQ Links of zoologylearningpoint channel’s lectures= Origin of Life – Ancient Theories for…

So far, we’ve stuck to the idea of “lone pairs”, electrons being “between” nuclei, and hybridized atomic orbitals to explain…

By Justin Garwood, Mike van Hattem, Tony LaBanca, Ken Lindke, Gordon Leppig, and Michael Kauffmann A BIOGEOGRAPHIC CROSSROADS High in…

Aspidistras are famous for their ability to withstand and even flourish under the kind of neglect that would usually end…

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The process of formation of gametes is called “gametogenesis”. The gametes are derived from primordial germ cells/ primitive sex cells.…

The first Asilomar conference of 1975 has been both celebrated and condemned. Whichever way you lean it was certainly a…

And then I caught a cold, so there went another week. This year I seem to be catching every single…

Right, well I hope you all enjoyed the previous post about the formidable Assassin Bugs of the Hemipteran family, Reduviidae,…

Angiosperms form the most dominant group of plants with at least 253,300 species (Thorne, 2007). Angiosperms are also found in…

   “The most bizarre, the most absurd, the most crazy prediction that quantum mechanics makes is, Entanglement.” ~ Walter Lewin,…

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Today, we built a Bug House! This is a fun activity to do with kids of all ages that requires…

The Lost and Found Fungi (LAFF) project have been travelling the country, teaching fungal enthusiasts DNA barcoding… With attention to…

Bobsleigh Marble Run Challenge You’ll need Marbles Craft items – cardboard tubes, cereal boxes, craft sticks, bottles, and anything else…

By Francesco Martini We are living in a biodiversity crisis, with many species shrinking in numbers and at risk of…

March Hares in front of Wisley’s Glasshouse. Dancing Hares bronze sculpture by Sophie Ryder. © Karen Andrews In early March,…

It is well known that we are in the throes of the sixth mass extinction–this time caused not by great…

Meet “Brunswick” And 8 Other Bone Chilling Great White Sharks Who Have Visited Our Jersey Shore943thepoint.comCats are predators and natural hunters, but…

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

For four decades, a controversial idea has shaped how autism is understood by researchers, healthcare professionals and the public: the…

Woot Woot the lads are back with another cornucopia of Fortean frolics:- Gef the talking mongoose- Lake monsters in the…

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

It was 2023, and Sarah Porteboeuf’s fridge calendar had “heavy-ion run” scribbled in big red letters across the end of…

When I knew I was moving back to Minnesota, I checked an apartment complex that was on my old birding…

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

Researchers summarize findings about the human health effects of a chemical after it was accidentally included in livestock feed. Introduction …

He found Giants then the Government Found Him | What really happened to Andrew Dawson? Andrew started his TikTok account…

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

AI is a double-edged sword, equal parts threat and opportunity. The ethical dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence must be addressed. Martha…

Picture this: a 43-year-old bonobo watches as a researcher tips an empty pitcher over two empty cups, miming the gesture…

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

The ISMPP European Meeting is a specialized annual conference focused on standards of medical publications and scientific communication. It is…

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

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