Alun Salt
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Illuminating work on bean domestication
What can you do with a light 10 billion times brighter than the sun? One thing you can do is examine 4000 year old seed coatings.
3 Ways to Tackle Plant Blindness
Plant conservation gets a fraction of the funding that animal conservation gets. A recent paper in Conservation Biology blames Plant Blindness. Is there a solution?
The Secret Larder of Ancient America
The next big thing on your dinner plate could be plants that were first domesticated five thousand years ago then forgotten about for centuries.
What happens if bees disappear?
New research shows that loss of a group of pollinators doesn’t always have a predictable decline in pollination success.
When seas rise rapidly
We think of sea-level rise as a long-term threat, but sometimes the change is catastrophically quick, and it’s the recovery that is long-term.
Purple Hays and Glossy Gibbons
The debate on naming continues. What makes a name scientific?
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