All posts tagged "Plants"
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1.1KScience NewsMIT Creates Glow-In-The-Dark Plants
Labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been lighting up for an unusual, innovative reasons: glow-in-the-dark plants. Engineers at the institution have...
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1.0KHealth NewsScientists Have Found Why The Durian Has An Overpowering Smell
The durian holds the dubious honor of being arguably the world’s smelliest fruit. Now, scientists in Singapore announced that they have pinpointed...
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1.1KScience News‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Hit By Melting Ice Waters Safe, For Now
The famed “Doomsday seed vault” buried deep under a remote mountain in Norway is safe for now, the country’s government officials declared....
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1.4KHealth NewsScientists Use Spinach Leaves To Grow Beating Heart Tissue
Researchers have successfully created functioning human heart tissue, complete with veins that can transport blood, using no less than spinach leaves. In...
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1.2KHealth NewsWoman In San Francisco Dies After Drinking Poisonous Tea
A woman who unwittingly drank tea containing a lethal poison that she purchased from an herbalist in Chinatown in San Francisco has...
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1.4KScience NewsIridiscent Blue Plant Adapted To Its Surroundings
In the dim, dark depths of Southeast Asia’s rainforests grows a highly unique plant. The Begonia pavonina, or “peacock begonia” shimmers in...
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1.9KScience NewsYoung Sunflowers Really Do Follow The Sun
Sunflowers, like their name suggests, actually do follow and dance to the sun. Every day, young sunflowers track the sun’s path across...
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4.8KEnvironmental NewsHalf Plant, Half Machine: Swedish University Develops Electronic Roses
Researchers in Linköping University in Sweden can now boast that they have created a cyber rose. The group of scientists at the...
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2.1KScience NewsSixty Percent Of Large Herbivores Face Threat Of Extinction, Study Finds
Sixty percent of giant herbivores, such as black rhinos, camels, elephants and buffaloes are at risk of extinction, according to researchers. The...
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2.0KScience NewsScientists Discover Why Some Mushrooms Glow In The Dark
While the chemical process through which mushrooms generate light is still unknown, U.S. and Brazilian researchers behind a recent study believe that...
