COSMOS MAGAZINE
Researchers have finally figured out why flowers shrivel up after pollination, showing that it enables a plant to salvage some of the resources it put into petals to reuse at another time.
A group of emergency department doctors in Scotland took it upon themselves to test different remedies to nettle stings on each other and found that lettuce works just as well as the age-old dock leaf for treating stings.
Plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen through stomata on the surface of their leaves. Researchers have now discovered the molecular mechanism inside plant cells that regulates their rhythmic opening and closing throughout the day.
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