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Plant is a living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site. They are multicellular organisms in the kingdom Plantae that use photosynthesis to make their own food. A plant is a living thing that grows in the earth and has a stem, leaves, and roots.
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AUG 24, 2017Plants & Animals
The snow leopard is a creature that resides on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 24, 2017Plants & Animals
Meet Oreo; he’s a poodle from Connecticut that lived a normal life up until he developed a massive tumor on his ch ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 23, 2017Cancer
Most everyone who consumes avocados have come to regard the center pit as a mere obstacle to the green and butter smooth ...AUG 23, 2017Earth & The Environment
Permafrost. It even sounds intimidating. Permanent frost, forever frozen. Brrrr. Except in our warming planet, the frost ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 23, 2017Plants & Animals
Bindi Irwin’s Australia Zoo was blessed with the birth of a rare white female koala joey, but it currently doesn&r ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 22, 2017Plants & Animals
Climate change is a major concern for environmentalists; one of the things they do is try to protect wildlife from succu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 21, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
Tests that aim to diagnose asthma in young children can often be highly stressful to both the child and the parents. Fur ...AUG 21, 2017Earth & The Environment
You may have seen some news out about the Yellowstone supervolcano recently, but what’s really going on down in th ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 21, 2017Plants & Animals
Butterflies are perhaps one of the world’s most-loved insect species. Not only are they completely harmless, but t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 19, 2017Videos
Humans have succeeded where other species have failed because of our ingenuity. But the same technologies and inventions ...AUG 19, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
New work is upending an old theory about the development of sex-specific mammalian reproductive systems.Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 19, 2017Plants & Animals
Staff from the Shibukawa Zoological Park in Japan were left in shock after one of their tortoises went missing. Although ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 18, 2017Immunology
Since the development of vaccines protecting people from the disease in 1950s, polio has been all but eradicated. Severa ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 18, 2017Chemistry & Physics
Schematic showing how a spongy photocatalyst converts carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide. Credit: K. Niu & H. ...Written By: Daniel DuanAUG 18, 2017Plants & Animals
Animal conservation researchers are making history by performing the first ever major health assessment of endangered wh ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 17, 2017Plants & Animals
When you go to the beach and happen upon an unsuspecting baby marine animal in distress, you should probably leave it al ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 17, 2017Earth & The Environment
Climate change is hitting some areas and species harder than others. Deserts in the Southwest of the United States are f ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 16, 2017Earth & The Environment
A new study from a team of scientists at the University of Washington suggests that adding a probiotic to poplar trees c ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 16, 2017Plants & Animals
Animal conservation experts and crocodile lovers alike should be excited to hear that perhaps the most elusive crocodile ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 16, 2017Cancer
A protein from the “shaggy ink cap” mushroom may be a lethal fighter against leukemia cells, scientists repo ...AUG 15, 2017Plants & Animals
It’s common for frogs, lizards, and some other vertebrates to hunt and devour spiders in the wild, but how often d ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 14, 2017Microbiology
Beer is usually made using yeast strains that scientists are familiar with. After scientists analyzed a brew made from w ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 14, 2017Plants & Animals
Camera-bearing nature explorers had a rare opportunity recently to film an elusive all-white moose in Värmland, loc ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 13, 2017Earth & The Environment
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have recently published a new study in the journal Environmental Re ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 24, 2017
Plants & Animals
The snow leopard is a creature that resides on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 24, 2017
Plants & Animals
Meet Oreo; he’s a poodle from Connecticut that lived a normal life up until he developed a massive tumor on his ch
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 23, 2017
Cancer
Most everyone who consumes avocados have come to regard the center pit as a mere obstacle to the green and butter smooth
...
AUG 23, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Permafrost. It even sounds intimidating. Permanent frost, forever frozen. Brrrr. Except in our warming planet, the frost
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 23, 2017
Plants & Animals
Bindi Irwin’s Australia Zoo was blessed with the birth of a rare white female koala joey, but it currently doesn&r
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 22, 2017
Plants & Animals
Climate change is a major concern for environmentalists; one of the things they do is try to protect wildlife from succu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 21, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Tests that aim to diagnose asthma in young children can often be highly stressful to both the child and the parents. Fur
...
AUG 21, 2017
Earth & The Environment
You may have seen some news out about the Yellowstone supervolcano recently, but what’s really going on down in th
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 21, 2017
Plants & Animals
Butterflies are perhaps one of the world’s most-loved insect species. Not only are they completely harmless, but t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 19, 2017
Videos
Humans have succeeded where other species have failed because of our ingenuity. But the same technologies and inventions
...
AUG 19, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
New work is upending an old theory about the development of sex-specific mammalian reproductive systems.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 19, 2017
Plants & Animals
Staff from the Shibukawa Zoological Park in Japan were left in shock after one of their tortoises went missing. Although
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 18, 2017
Immunology
Since the development of vaccines protecting people from the disease in 1950s, polio has been all but eradicated. Severa
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 18, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Schematic showing how a spongy photocatalyst converts carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide. Credit: K. Niu & H.
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
AUG 18, 2017
Plants & Animals
Animal conservation researchers are making history by performing the first ever major health assessment of endangered wh
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 17, 2017
Plants & Animals
When you go to the beach and happen upon an unsuspecting baby marine animal in distress, you should probably leave it al
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 17, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Climate change is hitting some areas and species harder than others. Deserts in the Southwest of the United States are f
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 16, 2017
Earth & The Environment
A new study from a team of scientists at the University of Washington suggests that adding a probiotic to poplar trees c
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 16, 2017
Plants & Animals
Animal conservation experts and crocodile lovers alike should be excited to hear that perhaps the most elusive crocodile
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 16, 2017
Cancer
A protein from the “shaggy ink cap” mushroom may be a lethal fighter against leukemia cells, scientists repo
...
AUG 15, 2017
Plants & Animals
It’s common for frogs, lizards, and some other vertebrates to hunt and devour spiders in the wild, but how often d
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 14, 2017
Microbiology
Beer is usually made using yeast strains that scientists are familiar with. After scientists analyzed a brew made from w
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 14, 2017
Plants & Animals
Camera-bearing nature explorers had a rare opportunity recently to film an elusive all-white moose in Värmland, loc
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 13, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have recently published a new study in the journal Environmental Re
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan