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For carnivorous plants, slow but steady wins the race

Like the man-eating plant in Little Shop of Horrors, carnivorous plants rely on animal prey for sustenance. Fortunately for humans, carnivorous plants found in nature are not dependent on a diet of human blood but rather ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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How the lily blooms: A mathematical perspective (w/ video)

The "lily white" has inspired centuries' worth of rich poetry and art, but when it comes to the science of how and why those delicately curved petals burst from the bud, surprisingly little is known.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Carnivorous plants losing ground in the U.S.

"This is the easy part," says Barry Rice, half-sliding, half-falling down a ravine through a latticework of dead branches.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Up, Up and Away with Aerobots

Unmanned blimps or balloons flying for thousands of kilometers could offer a bird’s eye view of planets and moons.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 13, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New material traps radioactive ions using 'Venus flytrap' method

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like a Venus flytrap, a newly discovered chemical material is a picky eater -- it won't snap its jaws shut for just anything. Instead of flies, however, its favorite food is radioactive nuclear ...

Chemistry / Other

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Deep-sea researchers uncover several new species and thousands of fossilized coral samples

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and an international team of collaborators have returned from a month-long deep-sea voyage to a marine reserve near Tasmania, Australia, that ...

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created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA calls on APL to send a probe to the sun

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone - and what it finds could revolutionize what we know about our star and the solar ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 02, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (17) | comments 3


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