Scientist explores the colorful intricacies of pollen
Unless it happens to be allergy season, most people don't give a lot of thought to pollen. But new research might change the way we look at a field of flowers.
Unless it happens to be allergy season, most people don't give a lot of thought to pollen. But new research might change the way we look at a field of flowers.
Evolution
Apr 16, 2020
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Some flowers have a remarkable and previously unknown ability to bounce back after injury, according to a new study.
Plants & Animals
Apr 8, 2020
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Like a snapshot, amber preserves bygone worlds. An international team of paleontologists from the University of Bonn has now described four new beetle species in fossilized tree resin from Myanmar, which belong to the Kateretidae ...
Archaeology
Mar 18, 2020
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Bees—both honey bees and less famous native bees—are critical for agriculture, especially for pollinating fruits and vegetables.
Plants & Animals
Feb 27, 2020
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Researchers at Uppsala University and the University of Leeds presents a new mathematical model of patterns of diversity in the fossil record, which offers a solution to Darwin's "abominable mystery" and strengthens our understanding ...
Evolution
Feb 19, 2020
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In Brazil there is a plant so strange that researchers predicted—and 27 years later, proved—that opossums are key to its pollination. The findings are published in the Ecological Society of America's journal Ecology.
Plants & Animals
Feb 12, 2020
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Scientists have developed a way to image sexual reproduction in living flowers, according to a study published today in the open-access journal eLife.
Ecology
Feb 11, 2020
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Many species of North American bumble bees have seen significant declines in recent decades. Bumble bees are essential pollinators for both native and agricultural plants, and their ability to fly in colder temperatures make ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2020
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A new study published in Nature reports the 409-megabase genome sequence of the blue-petal water lily (Nymphaea colorata). The conclusion of the 47 coauthors is that although a rose is a rose, most flowering plants may owe ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 18, 2019
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New research has revealed that Australia's oldest flowering plants are 126 million years old and may have resembled modern magnolias, buttercups and laurels.
Archaeology
Dec 12, 2019
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