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Mouldy concrete is fit for purpose
When mould gets a grip on a building, it can hold it together.
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Root hairs to halt global warming
Can plants help fight global warming? Nigel Chaffey looks to the roots.
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Outer space comes to Cambridge
Some saxifrages are almost literally out of this world.
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The increasingly fluid Silk Road
What would you imagine was carried along the Silk Road(s), that ancient route that connected the far-East to the near-East and Europe? Silks?
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Sustainable trees…
Not much of a story? Aren’t all trees sustainable [“avoiding depletion of natural resources”; “capable of being maintained at a steady level without exhausting natural
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Non-insect-eating insectivorous plant
Probably the one thing one could guess about an insectivorous plant is that it ‘eats’ insects. Take for example one of the most iconic entomophagous botanics
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Octulose, about to get bigger?
What is octulose? And why is it about to be bigger? Well, according to Qingwei Zhang and Dorothea Bartels, it’s a “forgotten metabolite”. Yes, but
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Roots create … rock
The more I learn about roots, the more amazing they appear. Not only do they provide essential support for, and anchorage of, the aerial, above-ground,
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How much do you know about … blowguns?
Not much I suspect. And it’s probably not that important that any of us do in the so-called developed world where we don’t
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Gardens, truly the best medicine!
It is sometimes claimed that laughter is the best medicine. Joking apart, it’s probably better documented, and arguably more evidence-based [e.g. The King’
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Introducing The Global Flora
At Cuttings HQ we love a new botany journal – even if it’s technically described as a serial. So, we were really pleased to find out
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Mammoth news: Bees help plants
What! That’s news?? Surely everybody knows that many plants are pollinated by bees? Hopefully, yes, but this item is not about that well-known plant-