Banana trees become a renewable source of bioplastics
Biodegradable 'plastic' bags made from a banana plant may sound a bit ... bananas, but some Australian researchers have found a way to do that and make it a public solut…
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Biodegradable 'plastic' bags made from a banana plant may sound a bit ... bananas, but some Australian researchers have found a way to do that and make it a public solut…
Having to pretend to be a leaf even though it looks like 99.99% is not as easy as you think, because it also requires the ability to act very cleverly, flexible incarnat…
A spider was scary. Now imagine the same spider, but there are dozens of them crawling while crawling?
Anthocyanins are a group of pigments that help boost antioxidants and create purple, red or blue colors for a variety of fruits and vegetables.
The scientists found that the honey bee Apis mellifera exposed to electromagnetic fields similar to the electromagnetic fields near the ground surface around power lines…
According to a study published in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), two strains of predatory bacteria can work together to cause maximum dam…
Australian residents on their way home from a forest fire discovered a large wooden tree burned with fire from the inside.
An international team of researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found that the microorganisms living in the gut can change th…
The Methuselah tree remains rooted where it has grown for more than 4,800 years before the time of the Egyptian Pyramids. - VnExpress Travel
According to a new study, when bees fall into the water to avoid drowning, they know how to use their wings to move across the water, creating waves with beats to surf i…
If you've ever observed a colony of ants moving, you'll find they never get stuck in traffic. Ants are the masters of man in organizing collective traffic flows.
The name of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg was given to a beetle less than 1mm long, the color of honey, belonging to the species Ptiliidae, discovered in Kenya in the 1960s.
Like the national flag, the national anthem and the national flower are typical flowers, representing the cultural characteristics of the nation.
A new study has shown that plants have an amazingly complex response to rainfall.