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Whether or not Man-Eating Tree?
There are several plants that take minerals by becoming carnivorous plants - carnivorous plant. In Latin carnivorous means meat-eating. They do not take minerals from th…
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How do carnivorous plants work?
Normally plants can create their own food source. They take carbon dioxide from the air, groundwater, underground minerals and photosynthesis from sunlight. However, the…
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Interesting things about insects
The insects are too small to seem harmless to big cars. Yet they are the cause of more than half a million drivers in the UK. Insect world,
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Queen of orchids in black forest
Nature has generously given them orchids an extraordinary beauty, and the diversity of flowers has stunned people since ancient times to the present day.
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Sunscreen of plants
Plants do not get sunburn because they secrete substances that act as sunscreens, helping to protect them from harmful sun rays.
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The secret of sunflowers
Sunflowers follow the sun thanks to the biological clock mechanism and not completely follow the light as previously predicted.
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Why sawn wax leaves with holes?
Great calculations have helped scientists solve a difficult problem, haunting them for over 100 years.
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8m tall sunflowers
Richard Hope, a talented farmer in the United Kingdom, has defended many Guinness records of cultivation such as the biggest beet, the heaviest chives ... This year, he…
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Sunbathing insects to prevent disease
Paul Boxelder often concentrates in groups to sunbathe in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Given that this phenomenon is unusual, biologists from Simon Fraser U…
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The only story about pine trees left after the Japanese tsunami
The only survivor in the 70,000 tree pine forest that stands in front of the sea in Rikuzentakata has become a symbol of hope in Japan, when the country struggled in the…
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Discovered 23 million-year-old insect fossils
The remains of ancient insects and sunflower seeds trapped in amber in the Miocene date (23 million years ago) were discovered in Peru on August 9.
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Strange ocean jellyfish breeding in the aquarium
Scientists at the Basel Zoo in Switzerland have announced the success of pressing a rare and precious jellyfish that looks like a breeding egg in an artificial environme…
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Hornets use solar energy
This Eastern bee species belongs to the bumblebee family, which has a special structure on the abdominal cavity that helps capture sunlight, and a special pigment that c…
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Plankton thrives on volcanoes
Plankton are the foundation of the marine food chain, they need sunlight to carry out photosynthesis as well as other nutrients like nitrate, phosphate and iron to feed…
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Sunflower plants bloom 104 flowers
Gordon Davis's sunflowers have so far grown 104 flowers and this is considered a record of a sunflower.