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The aim of my PhD is to identify which ornamental plants might become invasive in the future, possibly as a…

NASA’s Artemis II rocket has made its way back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), but this time it’s not…

A vertebrate with one of the longest necks When paleontologists uncovered the fossils of Dinocephalosaurus orientalis in the Middle Triassic…

Wild Daffodils, Narcissus pseudonarcissus, in West Woods, near Marlborough, Wiltshire. © Karen Andrews It’s a pleasure to see Wild Daffodils.…

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“Do plants feel?” This is one of many questions that Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose posed. Bose, today’s featured Google…

Radioheliographs and wideband solar radio spectrographs are essential components of the Chinese Meridian Project (CMP)‐II (C. Wang et al., 2024)…

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Stopped off at Orton on the way up to see Crepis praemorsa at its only UK site, quite a few…

The Dog Control Act is under scrutiny following three serious dog attacks last week. Organisations such as Auckland Council and the SPCA separately called…

As well exemplified by a significant fraction of anole research, islands can act as natural laboratories of evolution. With limited…

This lovely garden just outside the small coastal town of Landevennec in northern Brittany  is absolutely full of surprises at…

Chris Skinner poster of ‘Dark City’I’m finally starting a newsletter!! Neurocritical Thoughts will function as a supplementary “trial” blog, with…

Co-author Irina Rotenko Recently, we captured an interesting moment when a large wild boar tried to attack an adult wolf…

Preparing to leave for a new campsite with all of our gear and supplies Exploring remote and little known parts…

 A revision of the psammophilic genus Liobuthus Birula, 1898 (Scorpiones: Buthidae), with a description of four new species from Central…

Deep-sea sharks include some of the longest-lived vertebrates known. The record holder is the Greenland shark, with a recently estimated…

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Posted on October 28, 2025 Hurricane Melissa is poised to be a historic and devastating hurricane for Jamaica. The latest…

 Jambo Jambo! My name is Anne Ju, and I am the new research assistant based out of Serena camp! I…

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

More than seven millennia ago, Stone Age mourners in what is now Sweden buried a boy with a crown of…

It’s quite possible to see 100 species of birds in a day in any month of the year here in…

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In the sophisticated landscape of immunology, macrophages represent the frontline of innate immunity and the architects of tissue homeostasis. These…

In this edition of Who’s who in the Zoo, meet Michelle Yuen, a Zooniverse backend developer. Who: Michelle Yuen, Backend…

Pacific Coralroot, Corallorhiza mertensiana (Orchidaceae). 🌸A new orchid species for me! These were so PINK compared to other coralroots I’ve…

In what has become hardly a leap for the company, SpaceX concluded its Starlink satellite launches for February 2026 with…

Pollinator Ambassadors, a European charity co-founded by Zoology PhD student Nynke Blömer (Agroecology Group), has recently won grants for two…

A liger at Jungle Island, Miami. Lions and tigers naturally live in different habitats and so rarely meet. If they do happen…

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something…

(alternative title: Penguin Power!*) “Bathysphere is a voluntary deep-sea network of Norway-based deep-sea scientists and professionals who want to increase…

I’ve been busy with life this past holiday month, and have been working on some writing, including a new article…

NASA’s path to the moon is taking a detour. The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, will no longer land…

Komodo Dragon on the island of RincaSeptember 2016The expedition cruise on which Clementine Churchill was a guest of Walter Edward…

A Seminole pumpkin in my garden near DC, a decade ago A Seminole pumpkin in a CSA box a decade…

NASA’s Space Launch System has had a tricky startNASA/Cory Huston NASA is shaking up the plan for its Artemis moon…

 A couple of photo-stills from my two AI-generated video clips of the familiar cropped version of the notorious Ameranthropoides loysi…

2022 Madison Fling attendees at the UW-Madison ArboretumThanks for joining us! We love reading your posts about the Madison Fling,…

Fossils trapped in amber aren’t just beautiful, they may preserve real ecological interactions, including possible parasitism or commensal relationships between…

Schradin, C., Pillay, N. and Rimbach, R. (2026). Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: Results…

When visitors see our garden renovation, one of their first positive comments is about the gabion retaining walls. We agree. For high design…

Why Teaching Significant Figures is Crucial To Teach or Not to Teach Significant Figures? At the start of the academic…

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Talks Kenton is Doing:Oct 28, (2025) UNLA: St George, UT, USA “Crevice Gardens”Jan 7 (2026) : Montana Green Expo: Billings,…

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

Image: WoRMS Editorial BoardGonionemus vertens Jellyfish are known to be inveterate drifters. They love nothing more than to hang out…

 The weather pattern seems to have changed to a hotter, wetter July.  At least for now the almost 3″ of…

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

The sponges are structurally primitive animals, very ancient as a group and only distantly related to the animals of other…

Six very short stories about trees.  1. ‘So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our…

The electronegativity also influences the character of these molecular orbitals. Imagine it this way – oxygen is ravenously drawing all…

If, like me, you live in the UK then you will have seen this spider. I am pretty confident that…

It is a rare but special day when we can add a new plant to the relatively small list of…

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

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True Blue Flowers at the allotment /part 2I’ve complained over and over about how I missed having the time to…

By Jonathan Latham, PhD. It is a remarkable fact that, despite its purported emphasis on science, no one who led…

This blog originally appeared as a guest post for The Conservation Project. Kids who care about wildlife and wild places tend to…

Here is another introduced species that has increased rapidly in the last 20 years. It’s a creeping bramble coming from…

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

After a short hiatus, EcoEvo will be back up and running for the next year. Firstly, a massive thank you…

Diving into the history of plants frequently shows me crafts and professions that I knew little about and that are…

There is a plethora of scientific proof. Yogurt’s enriched content of probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, proteins, and other…

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

It’s not often that I drive around with a car full of silverware, but that’s exactly what happened last September…

British Science Week is an annual event celebrating science, technology, engineering and maths. It’s always a wonderfully inspirational 10 days…

Including multiple universes, which might explain where certain cryptids come from – and return to. now read on…. [Disclaimer: The content…

 Hiking the Bridge Trail in the Quehanna Wild AreaI shared an update just a couple of weeks ago, but it…

Freshwater estuaries are important habitats in lake ecosystems, harboring biodiversity and moving sediment between waterbodies.1 Within the Great Lakes, many of…

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

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By this time 26 years ago, the “Dot-Com Bubble” was ready to burst. People who wanted to raise investor money…

A data scientist thinks he’s solved the mystery of Bigfoot ― not by searching for the creature out in the…

Available on my Etsy shop!Scientific illustrations prints of several Nepenthes species from Peninsular Malaysia: N. macfarlanei and the recently described…

Every minute, countless muons rain down from space, passing through everything—including us—before penetrating deep below the Earth’s surface. The discovery…

There is something genuinely strange about the way bonobos use sex. Not strange in the tabloid sense, though that framing…

Joni Cook at Dimminsdale LNR,LeicestershireImage courtesy of J. CookBSBI’s Strategy 2024-27 includes the goal of inspiring, building and supporting a…

Scientists use insect larvae to make a healthy, sustainable milk alternative and a useful material. Introduction Many people meet…

I should change the name of this blog to be ‘Yearly Jack-O-Lantern Design Blog.’Yep. Still doing this. Here’s this year’s…

Advance copies of my new book, Three Worlds Oak, can now be ordered through the publisher in the UK and…

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Next month I’m headed on an expedition to THE ARCTIC!!!!!! When I told one of my best friends where my…

When garden plants go weedy, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve escaped the boundaries of our yards and invaded nearby natural…

With thousands of papers and studies being published daily, how do you know whether your research has made any waves…

Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum (2007), Forge Trade, 320 pp, paperback and Kindle. Dr Jeff Meldrum…

Around November/December I divided and transplanted my staghorn sporelings (Platycerium superbum) and wrote a blog post about these staghorn sporelings.  I…

 Have you tried ‘Counting to one million? – trying to imagine the enormity of geological time’.This Earthlearningidea is an activity…

For decades, scientists have wrestled with a simple but profound puzzle: how did life’s genetic code first connect with proteins?…

Botanical gardens are often celebrated for their beauty, and they also serve as important centers for scientific research. At the…

 AbstractAn interesting new species of jewel orchid, Zeuxine drukyulensis is described and illustrated from warm broadleaved forests in western Bhutan. It is closely allied…

Once again it’s that time of year, by which I mean… spawnwatch season, of course. Caption: peak spawning activity, occurring…

For gardeners, the annual Orchid Show isn’t just a seasonal spectacle—it’s an inspirational classroom and a celebration of nature’s endless…

By Robert Bradley Jr. “The Sunnova case has become a cautionary tale in the solar industry, underscoring the importance of…

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Plant Hunt is a game of memory. The goal is to match all the cards in the shortest number of…

Over the years, cell biology has built a detailed picture of how cells compartmentalize their internal functions. Central to this…

Color in life of Anolis laevis. Dewlap of adult male (A), lateral head of adult male (B), lateral body of…

The nomination of Steve Pearce for BLM Director and the urgent need for Congressional defense An ongoing series, produced by…