Plants can show your presence at a crime scene
How empty does a room have to be to have no witnesses?
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Can a tomato hear, and what would it listen to?
Over Christmas, a couple of papers came out that suggest plants can respond to airborne sound waves. The findings challenge many ideas about how plants respond to sound.
Wassailing to wake the trees
January 17 marks twelfth night in the Julian Calendar. It also marks the traditional night of wassailing, a ritual to drive evil spirits from the orchard.
For the Pineapple Lily, attraction is a matter of chemistry
Eucomis regia, the pineapple lily, doesn’t attract insects or birds to pollinate it. So how does it reproduce?
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