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Helen Bradshaw

Editorial Intern

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Four rows of repeated gifts for new plant parents: a pink cactus humidifer, bonsai scissors, a green ZZ plants in a white pot, and green and white plant lover socks.
Environment

20+ gifts to help your new plant parent friends grow their love of plants

By Helen Bradshaw

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Animals

Florida’s aquatic animals prepare early for storms like Hurricane Idalia

By Helen Bradshaw

Three alkaline hydrolysis machines for pet remains at the Bio-Response manufacturing facility
Environment

Inside the warehouse that builds machines to liquify dead bodies

By Helen Bradshaw

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Agriculture

9 native grasses that will revitalize your sad, water-wasting lawn

By Helen Bradshaw

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Energy

4 of the best homes for off-the-grid living

By Helen Bradshaw

The National Institutes of Health is studying dogs to learn more about aging and genetics in people
Animals

The National Institutes of Health is studying dogs to learn more about aging and genetics in people

By Helen Bradshaw

One of the world's last worm grunters catches earthworms in Florida.
Animals

Masters of worm grunting vibrate like moles to harvest bait

By Helen Bradshaw

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Gear

Best White Elephant gifts

By Helen Bradshaw, Tony Ware

Spray-bottle-with-DIY-rosemary-water-for-hair
DIY

Rosemary is the secret to long and healthy hair. Here’s how to use it to grow luscious locks.

By Helen Bradshaw

A brown rooster perched on a DIY chicken swing inside a chicken coop yard.
Animals

Why you should build a swing for your chickens

By Helen Bradshaw

A Jack Black skincare set, NuFACE device, and Drunk Elephant set
Gear

The best skincare gifts worth the splurge

By Helen Bradshaw

Empty plastic bottles are layered on top of eachother
Climate Change

Companies pledge to reduce plastic waste, but the burden falls to you

By Helen Bradshaw

deviant art's dreamup AI generator tool
AI

DeviantArt’s AI image generator aims to give more power to artists

By Helen Bradshaw

a timelapse of batteries discharging and transforming from yellow to dark red in the process
Energy

How a design tweak could help pacemaker batteries last longer

By Helen Bradshaw

A woman in a long sleeve white shirt reaches from bed to turn off her alarm clock.
Biology

The science behind our circadian rhythms, and why time changes mess them up

By Helen Bradshaw

A hellbender peers out with its blue eye from a rock
Animals

Hellbender salamanders may look scary, but the real fright is extinction

By Helen Bradshaw

varying sizes of argonaut egg cases are lined up
Animals

Argonaut octopuses are enigmatic—down to their self-made ‘shells’

By Helen Bradshaw

A single large leaf, with some crinkly, brown edges that may be indicative of a nutrient deficiency.
DIY

What your houseplants’ yellowing leaves are dying to tell you

By Helen Bradshaw

bat eating fruit
Animals

Turn your backyard into an awesome hangout for bats

By Helen Bradshaw

A man standing in a field lands a drone in the back of a pickup truck.
Agriculture

Microsoft is hoping its algorithms can help farmers—and the planet

By Helen Bradshaw