Observatory: The Flora Among Us
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Bacteria that thrive on human skin, oilâs lasting presence, new images of Titan and more.
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This week: living conditions for lab mice, crickets with broken hearts and the remnants of a Jupiter moon.
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Many Arctic plant species have readily adjusted to big climate changes, which implies that at least in that region, plants may be able to shift long distances.
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A secret long held by plants has been revealed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers.
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Les versions allemande, franÃ§aise et nÃ©erlandaise sont dÃ©sormais disponibles. La version italienne sera bientÃ´t accessible. Copernic et son partenaire de dÃ©veloppement Ã©conomique international Contraco
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Tycho:  It's hard to imagine not having access to a deep reservoir of supernatural knowledge to enrich and inform my daily life.  As early as age thirteen I was already curating a collection of incredible facts, highly granular assessments of wicked and ancient lizards, up to and including notes on their diet, sleep habits, and taste in home decor.  From the demure to the diabolical, I have sought to build a robust profile of the hidden world.  My very mind is an arsenal.
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NEW YORK A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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An Antarctic honeymoon, an iceberg, and questions about climate change.
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A puffer fish genome sequence sheds light on human biology, and tells a twisted evolutionary story. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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SPRING TORRENTS: In one of the most comprehensive studies of plants&#39; response to the global warming trend, Cornell scientists and their colleagues at the University of Wisconsin concluded
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By Rettenmeyer, Carl W  BIOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS: THE BASIS OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950. Robert E. Kohler. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. 380 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 978069] 125398 cloth).
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US scientists have unraveled the genetic map of a microscopic algae that absorbs huge amounts of greenhouse gases. âThese organisms are incredibly important in the global carbon cycle,â said Virginia Armbrust
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By WHITNEY GOULD  A breeze rustles through basswoods and willows. Warblers and finches twitter; a woodpecker taps away. Beyond a fringe of tall grasses, a fish ripples the water.
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NEW YORK Oct 22, 2004 - In a blow to human vanity, researchers now say that people have about the same number of genes as a small flowering plant or a tiny worm.
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A team of astronomers from the US and the UK obtain some of the clearest pictures of space ever taken.
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By Brian Nearing, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 8--COLONIE -- The electronic marquee outside a Wolf Road hotel Wednesday looked like something from the sci-fi double feature at a 1950s drive-in: Invasive Plants.
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A new report adds to the mounting evidence that relationships between plant and animal species can be far more complex than had been thought.