News tagged with venus fly trap
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 ...
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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.
Mar 21, 2011 |
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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.
Sep 09, 2010 |
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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
May 13, 2010 |
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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 ...
Feb 26, 2010 |
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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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Feb 04, 2009 |
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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
May 02, 2008 |
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