A viral image circulating on Facebook gives some advice on picking out the tastiest watermelon, but with a twist. It identifies two pictures of watermelons as male and female.. "There's male and ...
Next time you pass a wheat field on a dewy morning, you might want to say “gesundheit.” The flinging effect, which can happen on healthy plants too, is the result of a quirk of fluid dynamics: When ...
Delphine Farmer receives funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Energy, and the W.M. Keck ...
University of Southern Queensland provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Hay fever is a downside of springtime around the world. As temperatures increase, plant growth resumes and ...
Sometimes, doing research stinks. Quite literally. Corpse plants are rare, and seeing one bloom is even rarer. They open once every seven to 10 years, and the blooms last just two nights. But those ...