It seems like Roald Dahl may have been onto something after all: if you hurt a plant, it screams.
Well, sort of. Not in the same way you or I might scream. Rather, they emit popping or clicking noises in ultrasonic frequencies outside the range of human hearing that increase when the plant…
Archeologists at a Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall have uncovered a penis-shaped pendant thought to have been used as good luck charm.
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Scientists have discovered a set of markers in urine for prostate cancer, an advance that could lead to a simpler and better method to diagnose…
An unexpected discovery during routine park renovations in Thessaloniki, Greece, has unearthed a cluster of ancient burials, shedding light on…
“Lawyers are going to have a field day with this,” says Hathaway, who now works as a director at Lawyers for Good Government, a legal nonprofit dedicated to progressive advocacy.
It’s clear these new rules are exclusively a gift to extractive industries like drilling and mining. Solar and…
Archeologists at a Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall have uncovered a penis-shaped pendant thought to have been used as good luck…
Female athletes are closing the performance gap with their male peers and may soon overtake them in extreme sports events like
A volcano that has been dormant for more than 250,000 years might not be as dead and gone as it looks.
Beneath the tall peaks of Uturuncu in the Sur Lípez Province of Bolivia, scientists have figured out what is happening in the magma chambers deep underground, as materials slowly make their…
Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilisation – believed to be the oldest in the world.
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Earth’s cycles of light and dark profoundly affect billions of organisms. Events such as solar eclipses are known to bring about marked shifts in animals, but do they have the same effect on plants?
During a solar eclipse in a forest in Italy’s Dolomites region, scientists seized the chance…