“What is this thing on my plant?” is probably the question I get asked most often, as I play a sleuth on the radio on Saturday mornings. Radio is my favorite medium, but is the most difficult, with no ...

[Ben Krasnow] has a knack for showing us what’s inside of things while they’re moving. This week’s Applied Science experiment has him making time-lapse X-ray videos of things. This plant’s vascular ...

Develop your plant observation skills. It’s an acquired ability that improves with time and practice. Individuals who fail to develop the art of observation view plants as masses of growth that are ...

Everyone experiences phenology. What is phenology and how can observing plant and animal life cycle stages help us understand changes in climate, water, light and other abiotic factors? In this ...

A research team at the IPK Leibniz Institute has developed a method that enables the detailed observation of female ...