BBC opens the weird world of vegetable communication, revealing the fungal networks plants use to signal one another:
… Read the rest “Plants talk. Using fungus-phones.”But below ground, most land plants are connected by fungi called mycorrhizae.
A hothouse flower, far from home.
Mr. Fitch drew this picture – one of an awful lot – for The Orchid Album: Comprised of Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare and Beautiful… Read the rest “Science Art: Cattleya Maxima Backhousei by John Nugent Fitch, 1886”
Australian digital artist Russell Kightley does scientific visualization.
I found this particular vision on Scientific Illustration.
Laboratory Equipment plunges to the bottom of a pressing mystery – why the “king of fruits” packs such a pungent punch:
… Read the rest “Durian mystery revealed: why *does* it stink so deliciously?”Martin Steinhaus, from the German Research Center
Science Tech Daily says in the parasite world, it’s turtles all the way down. No matter how much of a *parasite* you are… like the brain-eating cordyceps fungus, for example…… Read the rest “What does the zombie-making fungus fear? Its own parasite.”
A black-and-white birth sequence.
From archive.org’s copy of “On Some Heterogenetic Modes of Origin of Flagellated Monads, Fungus-Germs, and Ciliated Infusoria”… Read the rest “Science Art: Simplest Mode of Development of Monads and Fungi from the Pellicle, 1871.”
SONG: “Particle.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant (with apologies to Antonio Vivaldi).
SOURCE: Based on “How Fungi… Read the rest “SONG: Particle”
Time travels to the Amazon to reveal the fungi that creates the clouds:
… Read the rest “The mushrooms that make the weather.”The clouds in the Amazon, just like everywhere else, consist of water vapor clinging to tiny clumps of carbon compounds.
Cambridge researchers have determined that an iridescent berry is the brightest thing in nature:
… Read the rest “The shiniest living thing.”The ‘brightest’ thing in nature, the Pollia condensata fruit, does not get its blue colour
Nature asks a question that gets more peculiar the more one considers it. A Japanese researcher looking at tree rings from two ancient cedars found unmistakable traces of a giant burst of… Read the rest “Why don’t we know what blew up in 774?”
Poppies.
For Memorial Day.
Funny how that saturated color automatically looks so 1970s now, when all they were trying to do was represent things precisely.
[via archive.org… Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 1, “Biosystematic Studies in Papaver, Section Oxytona,” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1974”
TG Daily reports on a new hope for clearing up our old landfills – by feeding the plastic to a very special rain-forest mushroom:
… Read the rest “Plastic-eating mushrooms clean us up.”Pestalotiopsis microspora, found in the jungles of
Not rice the cost of which is blood (I mean, not as in “blood diamonds”) but rice that PopSci says actually grows human blood:
… Read the rest “Blood rice.”HSA is important for treatment of a wide array of
From a page of botanical babies drawn by Swedish botanist Olof Swartz just before the dawn of the 19th century. Swartz was a pupil of Linnaeus, the fellow who pretty much … Read the rest “Science Art: Xylophylla, by Olof Swartz, 1791 (detail)”
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