The Plant Case Book: Diatoms
Kirsten Findlay explains her love for diatoms: microscopic, single celled plants.
Category: Life Sciences
Boys to Men
Felicity Carlysle reports a new experimental treatment that may make having a family possible for childhood cancer survivors.
Dinosaurs: stranger than fiction
Are dinosaurs really extinct? The GIST tackles some of the popular misconceptions about dinosaurs.
Throw Me A Meal!
A carnivorous plant of the sundew genus uses two different types of mechanisms to trap animals, new research shows. Scientists in Germany studied the sundew Drosera glanduligera to understand how this plant uses a catapult mechanism to throw flies into its sticky leaf centre where digestive enzymes break down insects to extract nutrients essential for the plant’s development.
Allelopathy: When Plants Attack!
Biochemical warfare used by aliens on the attack sounds like the plot of an apocalyptic sci-fi story. However under the ground there is biochemical warfare occurring, invaders being repelled and defenders being overcome.
What is sexy anyway? A scientific approach
Anneke Meyer wonders if there is an objective answer to the question that moves many men and women’s minds.
