Do you ever wonder if plants have feelings? If they did (and they don’t, at least as far as we know), one plant in particular would probably feel sort of depressed.
Why?
It’s a newly discovered plam tree on the island of Madagascar that lives for about 100 years without doing anything special, then […]
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Remember those TV ads for venus fly traps? A fly buzzes innocently near those weird leaves that look like almonds with eyelashes and . . . snap! The leaves close on the fly and that’s that. Awesome!
Well, the venus fly trap is just one of dozens of flesh-eating plants. There’s […]
We all know that dung makes for good fertilizer. But human urine? Yes, according to researchers at the University of Kuopio, Finland.
Why, you ask, would researchers want to test this hypothesis in the first place? First, because urine has an ancient legacy as fertilizer. It’s sterile and nitrogen-rich and […]