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Prof. in a box
In the good old days of the late 18th Century in England it was considered the height of scientific enquiry for a polymath cleric to put
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The high life
In the plant kingdom, great size doesn’t always guarantee ‘success’. Take for instance trees: for all their wonderfulness and huge size, they don’t always
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Black is the new… er… green?
What colour are plants? No, not a stupid question, but I bet you were tempted to answer ‘green’? Which is fair enough; chlorophyll is the major
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Rocks versus Clocks
What happened 670 million years ago? Can’t remember? Doesn’t matter, that’s why we have palaeobotanists. Palaeobotanists that is whose science it seems has
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Questions, questions, questions!
If science is about anything it is about asking questions. But these days it seems that it’s not enough for each individual white-coated, ivory-
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Rules are made to be broken, but not that one!
Whilst physicists try to understand the implications of, and undo any harm done by, the announcement that certain particles can travel faster than the speed of
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Facing the music
Plants are daily subjected to myriad biotic and abiotic factors and have to respond appropriately to them or suffer the consequences. However, one factor they’ve
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Latin is dead (Official!)
It’s been a feature of botany that ever since the language of Ancient Rome became the lingua franca of the educated classes, descriptions of new
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The voice of sanity (finally!)
How many times have you tried to understand a sentence from a scientific article only to give up thinking it was written in a foreign language?
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Rice finally makes impact!
The Springer-published, peer-reviewed, economically entitled research journal Rice, which is devoted to… err… rice, has received its first Impact Factor (a metric by which
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Big (and I mean GINORMOUS) new journal
Science has always been a ‘big’ topic – and not just those terrabucks physics projects – it asks some of the biggest questions of all: who are we?
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Barcode Wales
No, this has nothing to do with whales (they’re fish-like denizens of the deep, and has probably already been done by some countries under