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Smallest waterlily in the world brought back from the brink of extinction at Kew Gardens

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's top propagation 'code-breaker', horticulturist Carlos Magdalena, has cracked the enigma of growing a rare species of African waterlily - believed to be the smallest waterlily ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 19, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Secrets in a seed: Clues into the evolution of the first flowers

Approximately 120-130 million years ago, one of the most significant events in the history of the Earth occurred: the first flowering plants, or angiosperms, arose. In the late 1800s, Darwin referred to their development ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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It's a bug's life: MIT team tells moving tale

MIT mathematicians have discovered how certain insects can climb what to them are steep, slippery slopes in the water's surface without moving their limbs -- and do it at high speed.

Other Sciences /

created Sep 28, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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