As trees grow larger, their heartwood proportion increases and eventually accounts for most of the biomass. Heartwood decay resistance depends on the type and amount of protective chemicals ...

SRIKAKULAM: In a modest government school in Pathapatnam, students walk into a biology lab that feels more like an art ...

GOETHE'S essay on “The Metamorphosis of Plants”, first published in 1790, provides a theme of recurrent interest. Yet it would probably be not untrue to say that while the majority of contemporary ...

Julie Tan is woke. Over lunch with her one sunny afternoon at her new cafe, Botany by Dazzling Cafe, she tells us all about ...

An Oxford botanist reflects on one of the city's most cherished specimens. The plant has been in severe decline, having previously been widespread across the UK and Ireland. Researcher Septian Andriki ...

Abstract: I welcome you to the fourth issue of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials in 2021. This issue includes 23 papers covering different aspects of communication networks. In particular, ...

China's Shenzhou-16 crew have a "garden of vegetables in space. "The plants that grow in the garden are watered in the opposite direction from that on Earth," according to China Central Television.

One-year-old Jackson is not only adorable, he’s unique. He has a Corgi body with long legs. He can start out shy but end up ...

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Thankfully, we can still turn to our bookshelves — and podcasts — to ground us. We tapped science doyenne Alie Ward, the host of the funny cult favorite “ Ologies” podcast, to share her picks for the ...

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