New Study Unveils the Explosive Secrets of the Squirting Cucumber

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Scientists Discover What Makes the Corpse Flower Produce Its Rotting Flesh Stench

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7 things you should never do in a plant shop, according to owners and employees

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Let the employees take care of the plants in a nursery.

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Scientists Discovered an Entirely New Type of Wood

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An image of the macrofibril structures of a Tulip Tree seen under an electron microscope.

I tried eating 30 plants in a week like gut health experts recommend. It was way easier than I expected.

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I shopped at Lowe's and Home Depot for plants and outdoor essentials. The winner earned my loyalty all summer long.

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Author Terri Peters in Lowe's garden center
I found a lot of what I was looking for while shopping at Lowe's.

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Scientists witnessed an orangutan treating his wounds with medicinal plants, showing human-like behavior

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Orangutan with a wound under its left eye
Rakus, a Sumatran orangutan living in Indonesia, chewed medicinal leaves and applied them to his own facial wound to speed healing.

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New Yorkers planted a tiny forest in a spot where the city used to warehouse prisoners and smallpox patients

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Volunteers begin planting a pocket forest in Roosevelt Island's Southpoint Park on April 6, 2024.
Volunteers begin planting a pocket forest in Roosevelt Island's Southpoint Park on April 6, 2024.

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Svalbard Global Seed Vault accepted a record-breaking number of seed deposits amid climate crisis

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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault saw its largest number of new contributors in one day and now holds over 1.2 million seed varieties from 77 countries.

Plants can talk to each other and scientists say it should make us rethink how we treat them

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Scientists genetically engineered plants so they could see them talk to each other.

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