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A still showing the jet ejected from a squirting cucumber, which carries its seeds distances of up to 32 feet away from the mother plant.
Science

High-speed camera catches cucumber squirting seeds at 65 feet-per-second

By Laura Baisas

Ethiopian wolf licking nectar from Ethiopian red hot poker plant
Environment

These wolves are the first known carnivores to ‘enjoy’ sweets

By Andrew Paul

This fluorescence image shows chloroplasts (magenta colored) successfully incorporated into the hamster cells, with other features of the animal cell also highlighted (nuclei in light blue and organelles in yellow-green).
Science

Bioengineers made mutant, solar-powered hamster cells

By Andrew Paul

Close up of blooming corpse flower
Environment

Scientists crack the mystery of why the corpse flower smells like death

By Andrew Paul

yellow pollen shooting out of a red flower
Science

Plants could be manipulating sperm in completely new ways

By Laura Baisas

Monarch butterfly feeding on purple aster flower in summer floral background.
DIY

How to plant a garden butterflies will love

By Debbie Wolfe

herbs growing in kitchen
DIY

How to start growing herbs in your kitchen

By Debbie Wolfe

stages of a plant's development
Environment

Yes, plants go through ‘puberty’

By Laura Baisas

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams with two astronauts aboard ISS
Science

Starliner astronauts are watering plants and fixing urine pumps on ISS

By Andrew Paul

a flower garden with a brick pathway running through the middle
DIY

How to figure out your gardening zone

By Debbie Wolfe

Viruses called bacteriophages infect intestinal bacteria by injecting their genetic material and later, new phages burst out of the bacterium. But these phages and bacteria can also live in harmony.
Science

The phageome: A hidden kingdom within your gut

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

Located in the foothills of a rock emerging from a green field
Agriculture

Iron Age plant remains tell new agricultural story in east Africa

By Laura Baisas

a pot of venus fly trap plants on a table
DIY

How to care for a Venus fly trap

By Debbie Wolfe

Close up of Syntrichia caninervis moss
Agriculture

This inedible, indestructible moss may help humans thrive on Mars

By Andrew Paul

A Secchi Disk and a measuring tape on a gray wooden floating pier next to a moored boat.
DIY

You can help measure the ocean’s health with this homemade gadget

By Alisha McDarris

Red fall foliage on three-leaf sumac in Great Sand Dunes National Park
Environment

11 fiery shots of fall foliage around the US

By Popular Science Team

Multiple reddish pink parasitic plants called balanophora growing in a forest. Balanophora shed one third of its genes as it evolved into a very streamlined parasitic plant.
Science

These parasitic plants force their victims to make them dinner

By Laura Baisas

DIY rope plant hangers
DIY

The easiest, most basic DIY plant hanger you can make

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Close-up of witch hazel plant
Environment

Future leaping robots could take a cue from seed-launching witch hazel plants

By Andrew Paul

Amber tree sap dripping from a branch.
DIY

How to keep tree sap from ruining your car’s paint

By Maddi Langweil