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Bizarre, Parasitic 'Fairy Lantern' Reappears in the Rainforest After 151 Years

March 05, 2018 | Article

A strange plant that needs no sunlight and sucks on underground fungi for nutrients has turned up in Borneo, Malaysia, 151 years after the last time a scientist found it.
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When the World Turned Green: Age of Plant Photosynthesis Revealed

December 27, 2017 | Article

Ancient rocks from a remote Canada island contain the oldest algae ever discovered.
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How Do Palm Trees Withstand Hurricanes?

September 12, 2017 | Article

Trees generally snap, or at least lose a few branches, when faced with hurricane-strength winds. Not palm trees. These staples of the tropics typically bend during gusty weather.
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Beating Human Heart Tissue Grown from Spinach Leaves

March 28, 2017 | Article

Vegetables are good for your health, but now there's a whole new way that one veggie could help your heart: Spinach leaves can be used as a scaffold for beating human heart cells, a new study finds.
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1.6 Billion-Year-Old Specimens May Be Oldest Plant-Like Fossils

March 14, 2017 | Article

Scientists have discovered what may be the world’s oldest plant-like fossils, estimated to be 1.6 billion years old.
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What's Cookin'? Nothing, If You Were an Early Human

December 21, 2016 | Article

About a million years before steak tartare came into fashion, Europe's earliest humans were eating raw meat and uncooked plants. But their raw cuisine wasn't a trendy diet; rather, they had yet to use fire for cooking, a new study finds.
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5 Things to Know About Kratom

September 19, 2016 | Article

The DEA is planning on banning a drug called kratom. What is it and why is it used?
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'Demon Orchid' Has a 'Devil Head' and Claw-Like Petals

July 13, 2016 | Article

A new demonic flower species looks like the devil and has clawed petals.
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How the Plants Around Your Home May Affect Your Life Span

April 19, 2016 | Article

Having a lot of green around your home might help you live longer, according to a new study of more than 100,000 U.S. women.
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First Flower Seeds from Dinosaur Era Discovered

January 08, 2016 | Article

Cretaceous flower seeds, recently discovered by scientists, represent the oldest known seeds of flowering plants, dating back 110 to 125 million years.
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