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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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Shapeshifting '4D-Printed' Structures Mimic Plant Movement | Video

January 25, 2016 | Video

These structures can imitate the way in which orchids, calla lilies and other plants bend and twist. This technology could one day help scientists heal wounds or be used in developing robotic surgical tools.
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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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Sacred Datura: Photos of a Beautiful (But Poisonous) Plant

December 20, 2015 | Article

Sacred Datura (Datura wrightii) is a night-blooming herbaceous perennial that is common in the arid regions of the United States, Baja and northern Mexico.
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Bug-Eating Plant Uses Raindrops to Capture Prey

October 25, 2015 | Article

Carnivorous pitcher plants use falling raindrops to force prey to their doom, a new study finds.
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