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Tag: Popular Science

Cover of Tamed
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Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World by Alice Roberts

by Alun SaltMay 24, 2018May 23, 2018
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Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine

Extinction should be a sad subject, but one author was also able to point out how absurd it could be too.

by Alun SaltFebruary 12, 2017February 9, 2017
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Tomorrow’s Table by Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak

by Alun SaltJuly 4, 2014July 2, 2014
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Image: Neil Harris, University of Alberta/Wikimedia Commons.
Plant Cuttings

Brachypodium is NOT Arabidopsis(!)

Interactions between plant hormones ethylene and auxin in roots of the monocot Brachypodium distachyon differ to those in roots of the dicot Arabidopsis.

by Nigel ChaffeyAugust 22, 2013October 4, 2013
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Life

How embargoes happen

by Alun SaltJuly 24, 2013July 23, 2013
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Alice in the Wonderland of plants…

by Nigel ChaffeyJune 29, 2013June 15, 2018
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What a Plant Knows by Daniel Chamovitz

by Alun SaltMay 18, 2013May 18, 2013
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Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen

by Alun SaltApril 25, 2013April 24, 2013
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If you put together all the bad science analogies they would cover an area equal to size of 100,000 Pétanque pitches.
Life

Bad analogies

by Alun SaltMarch 26, 2013March 26, 2013
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Life Ascending by Nick Lane

by Alun SaltMarch 15, 2011March 14, 2011
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Robin Ince and Brian Cox in the Infinite Monkey Cage
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The origin of modern Botany and the Infinite Monkey Cage

by Alun SaltNovember 23, 2010November 23, 2010
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  1. The seed sleuth, forensic botany goes veggie on Sowing the seeds of future food securityFebruary 8, 2023

    […] follow-up book to further whet – or maybe satiate – your seed-story appetite after having read The Age of…

  2. Research associate (f/m/d) PostDoc Biology, Bioinformatics – Open Source Biology & Genetics Interest Group on Research associate (f/m/d) PostDoc Biology, BioinformaticsJanuary 30, 2023

    […] Read more here: Source link […]

  3. Shyam Phartyal on What lies beneath? Botanists find a disconnection between how plants behave above and below ground.January 29, 2023

    Excellent study. An additional flooding treatment could have revealed little more about this above-below ground trait relationship.

  4. Nigel Chaffey on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 18, 2023

    Good afternoon, Patrick, Aha, one now begins to wonder if the spelling Catherine in the cited source should really have…

  5. Patrick Collins on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 17, 2023

    The bisindole alkaloid catharine is said to have been published and the molecular structure can be found scattered about, though…

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