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The carnivorous California pitcher plant ensnares its dinner using a medley of techniques. Weird Plants, Unusual Plants, Rare Plants, Strange Flowers, Unusual Flowers, Beautiful Flowers, Gothic Garden, Little Shop Of Horrors, Gardens

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Unusual Flowers

Beautiful Flowers

Little Shop Of Horrors

The carnivorous California pitcher plant ensnares its dinner using a medley of techniques.

ROSES ARE RED, BEGONIAS ARE BLUE The iridescent color of some begonias comes from tiny structures. Those structures also help the plant convert dim light into energy, scientists found. ~~ Matthew Jacobs Begonia, Purple Roses, Blue Flowers, Plum Purple, Energy Harvesting, Improve Energy, Afraid Of The Dark, Quantum Mechanics, Nature Plants

Energy Harvesting

Afraid Of The Dark

Quantum Mechanics

ROSES ARE RED, BEGONIAS ARE BLUE The iridescent color of some begonias comes from tiny structures. Those structures also help the plant convert dim light into energy, scientists found. ~~ Matthew Jacobs

BETTER DROWNING Hooded, yellow-green California pitcher plants are quick to engulf insects in inner water traps, thanks to lurking bacteria. ~~ D. Armitage Water Traps, Pitcher Plant, Carnivorous Plants, Microbiology, Enzymes, Horticulture, Prey, Botany, Bacteria

Carnivorous Plants

BETTER DROWNING Hooded, yellow-green California pitcher plants are quick to engulf insects in inner water traps, thanks to lurking bacteria. ~~ D. Armitage

SUNSHINE OVERLOAD Colors show where tobacco leaves are wasting energy (blue, purple) by partially shutting down in response to bright light, and where they are running closer to full capacity (red, yellow). Shortening such shutdowns might make plants more productive. ~~ Lauriebeth Leonelli, Matthew Brooks/UC Berkeley Matthew Brooks, Photosynthesis, Color Show, Red Yellow, Purple, Blue, Full Capacity, Plants, Berkeley

SUNSHINE OVERLOAD Colors show where tobacco leaves are wasting energy (blue, purple) by partially shutting down in response to bright light, and where they are running closer to full capacity (red, yellow). Shortening such shutdowns might make plants more productive. ~~ Lauriebeth Leonelli, Matthew Brooks/UC Berkeley

Lichens, fascinating mosaics of fungi and algae or cyanobacteria, are made for sensing environmental change. Weird Science, Science Ideas, Lichen Moss, Star Trek Beyond, Diatom, Environmental Change, Environmentalist, Geek Art, Great Smoky Mountains

Star Trek Beyond

Environmental Change

Environmentalist

Great Smoky Mountains

Lichens, fascinating mosaics of fungi and algae or cyanobacteria, are made for sensing environmental change.

Ice barriers help alpine plants save their flowers during summer cold snaps. Lavender Farm, Lovely Lavender, Lavender Fields, Are Essential Oils Safe, Lavender Essential Oil, Mayfield Lavender, Alpine Plants, British Countryside, Desert Island

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Lavender Fields

Are Essential Oils Safe

Lavender Essential Oil

Mayfield Lavender

British Countryside

Ice barriers help alpine plants save their flowers during summer cold snaps.

Young sunflowers keep time | Science News for Students Science News, Science And Technology, Sun Path, Planting Sunflowers, Thompsons, Rays, Morning Sun, Young

Science And Technology

Planting Sunflowers

Young sunflowers keep time | Science News for Students

A circadian clock helps sunflowers follow the sun’s daily path across the sky Summer Dream, Used Lighting, Science Education, Genetics, Clock, Sky, Sunflowers

Science Education

A circadian clock helps sunflowers follow the sun’s daily path across the sky

Cultivated tomatoes fend off parasitic vines as they would microbes. Food Science, Tomatoes, The Good Place, Vines, Botanical, Take That, Microbes, Canning

Cultivated tomatoes fend off parasitic vines as they would microbes.

Yeasts newly discovered in common lichens challenge more than a century of thinking about what defines the lichen symbiosis. University Of Montana, Stem Science, Science Nature, Desert Environment, Slime Mould, H & M Home, Nature Garden

University Of Montana

Desert Environment

Yeasts newly discovered in common lichens challenge more than a century of thinking about what defines the lichen symbiosis.

In a four-year experiment, the shell-building activities of a phytoplankton species underwent surprising ups and downs. University Of Washington, Pictures Of The Week, Ups And Downs, Climate Change, Experiments, No Response, Species, Activities, Sumner

University Of Washington

Pictures Of The Week

In a four-year experiment, the shell-building activities of a phytoplankton species underwent surprising ups and downs.

To look for evolution in human-scale time, pick a city and watch a lizard. Or some clover. City Living, Biology, Evolution, Around The Worlds, Frank Vincent, Lizards

Around The Worlds

To look for evolution in human-scale time, pick a city and watch a lizard. Or some clover.

In Lab Girl, geobiologist Hope Jahren reveals secret lives of plants — and scientists. Autobiography Writing, Memoir Writing, Secret Life Of Plants, The Week Magazine, Book Authors, Books, Fields Of Science, National Science Foundation, Women Scientists

Autobiography Writing

Secret Life Of Plants

The Week Magazine

Fields Of Science

National Science Foundation

Women Scientists

In Lab Girl, geobiologist Hope Jahren reveals secret lives of plants — and scientists.

Desert moss slurps water from its leaves, not roots | Science News Root Science, Moss, The Globe, Deserts, Survival, Leaves, Water

Desert moss slurps water from its leaves, not roots | Science News

To survive in arid deserts across the globe, one moss species replenishes its water stocks by catching dewdrops with its leaves. Eco Friendly Cars, Splashback, Mechanical Engineering, Room Flooring

Eco Friendly Cars

Mechanical Engineering

To survive in arid deserts across the globe, one moss species replenishes its water stocks by catching dewdrops with its leaves.

The most abundant photosynthesizers on Earth stop storing carbon when they catch a virus. Viral Infection, Infections, Scientific Articles, Plankton, Greenhouse Gases, Hold On, Ocean, Capture

Viral Infection

Scientific Articles

Greenhouse Gases

The most abundant photosynthesizers on Earth stop storing carbon when they catch a virus.

A plant protein has passed lab tests for prionlike powers as molecular memory. Better Than Yours, Plant Protein, New World, The Help, How To Memorize Things, Memories, Remember

Better Than Yours

How To Memorize Things

A plant protein has passed lab tests for prionlike powers as molecular memory.

Bittersweet nightshade produces sugary wound goo to lure in ant protectors that eat herbivores, researchers have found. Herbivores, Pests, Ecology, Plant Leaves, Niger, Environmental Science, Bittersweet, Tobias

Environmental Science

Bittersweet nightshade produces sugary wound goo to lure in ant protectors that eat herbivores, researchers have found.

Office equipment beats synchrotrons in showing how drought lets air bubbles kill the water-carrier network of veins in plant leaves. Teaching Science, Teaching Tools, Water Carrier, Office Equipment, Oak Leaf, Data Visualization, Drought, Veins

Teaching Science

Office Equipment

Data Visualization

Office equipment beats synchrotrons in showing how drought lets air bubbles kill the water-carrier network of veins in plant leaves.

Genetic analysis suggests that Venus flytraps repurposed plant defenses against herbivores to live the carnivore life. Venus Fly Trap, Gene, Defense, Digest, Analysis, Repurposed, Roots

Genetic analysis suggests that Venus flytraps repurposed plant defenses against herbivores to live the carnivore life.

Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria have provided pest-fighting toxins for over 50 years. Bacillus, Gmos, Human Behavior, Science, Vegetables, 50 Years, Ethnic Recipes, Psychology

Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria have provided pest-fighting toxins for over 50 years.

Two species of invasive tumbleweeds hybridized into a third. A new study finds it probably will be invasive, too. Westerns, New Mexican, Land Of Enchantment, College Fun, Saguaro, Carlsbad, Walking In Nature, Culture Travel, Idaho

Land Of Enchantment

Walking In Nature

Two species of invasive tumbleweeds hybridized into a third. A new study finds it probably will be invasive, too.

Scientists have discovered that a plant compound interferes with bacterial communication. Too Soon, Attack, Raspberry, Scientists, Communication

Scientists have discovered that a plant compound interferes with bacterial communication.

Little spheres of cyanobacteria cells roughly focus light on sensitive compounds that let them walk in the right direction. Focus Light, Eyeball, Compounds, Spheres, Starry Night, Sensitive, Directions, Let It Be

Little spheres of cyanobacteria cells roughly focus light on sensitive compounds that let them walk in the right direction.

WATER COLOR Oxygen-producing plankton are on the decline in the western Indian Ocean, new research suggests. The work tracked changes in water color across the ocean caused by the presence — or absence — of phytoplankton, such as that seen in this swirling 2013 phytoplankton bloom. ~~ LANCE/NASA Ocean Science, Protect Nature, Food Web, Surface Water, Meteorology, Marketing Software, Our Planet

Marketing Software

WATER COLOR Oxygen-producing plankton are on the decline in the western Indian Ocean, new research suggests. The work tracked changes in water color across the ocean caused by the presence — or absence — of phytoplankton, such as that seen in this swirling 2013 phytoplankton bloom. ~~ LANCE/NASA