Biological sciences
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Droplet forming power is key for cells to attach properly
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Plant’s name-giving feature found to be new offspring-ensuring method
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Plants offer fruit to insects to disperse dust-like seeds
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New record holder for smallest dispersers of ingested seeds: Woodlice
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Clumps of this molecule inhibit strep’s DNA-cleaving enzymes
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Recreate development in a petri dish to understand how plants live
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Orchid without bumblebee on island finds wasp, loses self
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Death is only the beginning
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Leaf-like photosynthesis discovered in the roots of a leafless orchid
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The rediscovery of an ethereal fairy lantern brightly illuminates their mysterious past
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New discovery: Endangered Amami rabbit disperses seeds for non-photosynthetic plant
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Ethereal color variant of mysterious plant is actually a new species
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Arisaema urashima’s ‘fishing rod’ reels in its primary pollinator
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Marimo have age rings!
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Parasites manipulate praying mantis’s polarized-light perception, causing it to jump into water