News tagged with corpse plant
Botanical Garden braces for blooming corpse plant
The University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, nestled in Strawberry Canyon just above the central campus, features a mind-boggling 12,000 kinds of plants and breathtaking views of the Bay Area. ...
Jun 21, 2010 |
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Rubber chicken flies into solar radiation storm
Last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003, peppering satellites with charged particles and igniting strong auroras around both poles, a group of high school students in ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Our Amorphophallus is smaller: New plant species from Madagascar smells like roadkill
The famed "corpse flower" plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that i ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Research finds that a duck's boon might be a turtle's bane
Duck nest boxes used to aid cavity-nesting ducks can prove to be turtle death traps.
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Wright State students working to preserve rare Himalayan animal
(PhysOrg.com) -- A rare Himalayan goat-like animal called the grey goral, threatened with extinction in Pakistan because of population and hunting pressures, is getting some help from Wright State University.
May 06, 2011 |
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Nothing fishy about sardine kill
Algal bloom specialist David Caron knows exactly what caused the death of 2.5 million sardines at King Harbor and is producing a paper on his research. The city of Redondo Beach gave him and his team a coin ...
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Ecological burial involves freeze-drying, composting the corpse
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since the 12th century, the most common way to bury the dead has been to lay the corpse in a casket and then bury the casket several feet underground. Since then, we have learned that ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Beware the smell of bitter almonds: Why do many food plants contain cyanide?
(PhysOrg.com) -- In murder mysteries, the detective usually diagnoses cyanide poisoning by the scent of bitter almonds wafting from the corpse. The detective knows what many of us might find surprising — that ...
Jul 21, 2010 |
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The mammoths' swan song revised
This is shown by samples of ancient DNA, analysed by an international team of research scientists under the leadership of Professor Eske Willerslev from Copenhagen University. Analyses of ancient DNA thereby ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Dinosaur-Killer was Soft on Algae
The asteroid impact that many researchers claim was the cause of the dinosaur die-off was bad news for marine life at the time as well. But new research shows that microalgae - one of the primary producers ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2009 |
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Biologists discover 'death stench' is a universal ancient warning signal
The smell of recent death or injury that repels living relatives of insects has been identified as a truly ancient signal that functions to avoid disease or predators, biologists have discovered.
Sep 11, 2009 |
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