Seven ways to grow spring flowers indoors to lift the January gloom
You don’t have to be out in the garden to see things growing; here are the best easy arrangements to try inside ...
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Plants more likely to be 'eavesdroppers' than altruists when tapping into underground networks
A new study has used a modelling approach to show that it is unlikely that plants would evolve to warn other plants of impending attack. Instead of using their communication networks to transmit ...
Two hidden mountains 100 times taller than Everest discovered by scientists — but you won’t be able to visit them
At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...
Here’s what it could look like if we actually started living on Mars
Living on Mars will be no easy feat. Building viable living quarters would require an inflatable habitat that can be covered ...
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Giant, Mysterious Spires Ruled the Earth Long Before Trees Did. What Exactly Are These Odd-Looking Fossils?
For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...
Six planets will be visible tonight in a planet parade. Here's how to see it
It will be "a celestial event where multiple planets in our solar system appear close together in the night sky." ...
Planetary alignments aren’t rare, but 6 visible planets are. Here's how to see it.
Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many ...
A magical planetary alignment will occur this month — how, where and when to see it happen
Mars will be making its closest approach to Earth in two years, and thus, the mighty red planet, named for the god of war ...