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Tag: plants
Ancient Syrians’ nutrition looked a lot like the modern Mediterranean diet
This "new" diet has been around for thousands of years.
DNA study shows snow leopards eat a lot of things — including plants
Despite not being herbivorous, snow leopards seem to eat more plants than you'd think.
Your next salad could be grown just for you: custom-grown, soilless greens are coming
Personalized medicine is finally becoming a reality — starting with the food we eat.
Plants ‘scream’ under stress. Here is how you can hear them
Buy you still may not know if their crying means crying or something else.
The world’s largest flower is in terrible danger. These researchers want to save it
The group is way more threatened than previously assumed.
Researchers unravel the mystery of how plants pass down genetic information across generations
This has implications way beyond just plants.
Scientists train AI to unlock data from millions of plant specimens
The algorithm analyzed the relationship between leaf size and climate
The roots of domestication: how some farmers selected the plants that changed the world
Plant domestication can't be explained just by the behavior of humans.
Stressed plants are very noisy, but you never listen
Plants also talk, and they talk a lot under stress, but we are not sure who listens to the different ...
Free phone apps that identify plants from just a picture
It's like Shazam for plants -- you identify plants based on just taking a picture.
A hormone makes these plants thrive in the face of stress
It could help to engineer crops that can better cope with extreme weather.
Plant species that humans don’t need are going towards extinction
Study finds more losers than winners among over 80,000 plant species.
A lot of plant genes actually come from bacteria. And this may explain the success of early land plants
Even the genes that make us shed tears when cutting onions are bacterial in origin.
Europe’s woodlands want to shift north — but birds are carrying them soutwards
Sometimes the plan is all set but logistics don't help you.
Scientists discover new organ in the world’s most studied plant
We thought we knew everything about this most-studied plant. But we were wrong.
Photosynthesis could be as old as life itself
We all got to eat, right?
Timelapse reveals the hidden dance of roots — and how mutant plants do it differently
Turns out, watching plants grow is actually quite interesting.
The Earth’s “lungs” could start irremediably deteriorating in just two decades, study shows
Plants are on track to move from being carbon sinks to carbon sources
Scientists compile the world’s largest inventory of known plant species
It has over a million entries!
New Guinea is the island with the greatest plant diversity in the world
Researchers want to continue exploring the island's plants, which are in danger from loggers and farmers.
Nanoplastics can contaminate plants, making them smaller, shorter
Plastic waste could impact our crops.
Scientists create glowing plants using mushroom DNA and they are incredible
It's just like in Avatar.
Ecosystems with varied plant species are lusher, more efficient
Greater plant diversity benefits everyone in the ecosystem, a new study reports. Image credits Tien Vu. Higher levels of plant ...
The Biodiversity Heritage Library made over 150,000 illustrations and 55 million pages of research free to download
I have the utmost respect for everyone who made this happen.
Climate change is causing more plants to grow higher in the Himalayans
Vegetation cover is increasing across four height brackets in the area.
Climate change might mean more rain, but less water for everybody
In a hotter future, plants will consume more water than they do today -- which means a drier future despite ...
People used marijuana in rituals 2,500 years ago
High up in the mountains of China.
Eat more plant protein for a longer and healthier life, new study concludes
In recent times, the human diet has changed substantially. We have access to an unprecedented variety of foods, yet meat ...
How plants evolved to follow gravity
It's common sense that a plant's roots grow downward in the soil -- but it hasn't always been like this.
Cigarette butts are damaging plants, new study shows
Please don't litter cigarette butts!
Scientists modify plant mitochondrial DNA for the first time
This is huge news for the biotech industry.
Grazing animals drove the domestication of grain crops
This might solve a long-standing puzzle about plant domestication.
What is soil? Here’s the inside scoop
The Earth's great recycle bin.
Humans started cooking and eating starch 120,000 years ago
Mankind has been cooking starches for a long, long time.
Medicinal plants used in the Civil War can stomp our modern antibiotic-resistant germs
Old tricks, new ways to implement them.
Grasses steal neighbors’ genes to one-up other species
"They're OUR genes, tovarish plant" -- grasses.
Researchers design the first soft robot that moves like a plant
Which is to say, slowly!
Plants evolved to manipulate ants into defending them
A chicken and egg problem -- rehashed in an unlikely scenario.
Arctic plants are getting taller due to climate change — which could fuel more climate change
Well, this is an unusual problem to have.
Citizen science called upon to study liverworts and help quantify climate change
These plants could become our climate "canary in the coal mine".
Plants’ climate-compensation systems will be overwhelmed by climate change
Climate change could cause an ecological break-down.
Plants colonized the land 500 million years ago — much earlier than we thought
Plants might have moved on to the land 100 million years earlier than we thought.
Plants actively gauge their competition and switch strategies to one-up them
We all have to make ends meet. Even plants.
Human-use anesthetics also knock out plants, weirdly, teaching us a lot about such drugs
It's funny to realize that we've been using anesthetics for at least a century now, but we still don't *really* ...
Botanic gardens might be our last shot to save endangered plants
The bad news is that we need this in the first place.
