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It's really not so simple as this. It's really dim under the sea ice and these divers have used strobes and floodlights to pick out subjects in a dramatic way. On that front I don'…

For one thing, consumers favoring the convenience of supermarkets means choice gets limited to what large scale agribusiness can supply profitably. Local species and cultivars whos…

The qualities of the Saqqara boxes are entirely consistent with what we know about the mathematical and engineering sophistication of ancient Egyptians. There is nothing well-verif…

They are one of the most biodiverse habitats, if not the most diverse, home to a vast array of often spectacular species. And unlike other highly biodiverse habitats, much of this …

This is interesting to think about. As I'm sure you've considered, bacteria and other living cells exist in a state of highly regulated homeostasis. In bacteria, things like charge…

Is this excerpt about mosses really in the chapter on lichens?

It's hard to directly compare the challenges of growing fungus vs. meat. Remember that in the case of fungi, the desired product for the food industry is usually a specialized repr…

Roger Penrose wrote an interesting (if unavoidably controversial) book about these questions, "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and the Laws of Physics".

London has fantastic arts, music, literary, theatre scenes, both contemporary and classical. Many of its venues, galleries and museums are world leading institutions. The science &…

And that's exactly what we'll probably see here – 2/3 majority call for a general election. Just read the current headlines.

As things stand, Cameron will be replaced by a new Conservative leader in October who will be under pressure to call a general election more or less immediately (without the presen…

In the UK at least, sellers are required to offer PayPal as a payment option.

Well that's definitely not true. Many of the most potent toxins known to us are produced by living organisms – for an example, actually read the comment you replied to. You can fin…

The tek you link starts from grain spawn. You don't need sterile conditions at all to propagate loads of mushroom species if you're already starting with a robust dikaryotic cultur…

>All the techniques that I learned can be applied to cultivate any kind of mushroom... If only this were true. Sterile culture techniques only work for the subset of species that a…

My reaction to the article (even the end of it) was "wow, this is far less bombastic and egotistic than Stephen's normal writing, how refreshing." There are lots of books and artic…

Those plantings use herbaceous plants, climbers, and well-behaved shrubs of moderate size. Not trees.

The people working for only slightly more than the UBI will get more than twice the income of someone not working at all. Universal basic income means everyone gets the income.

...for this particular satellite imagery. It's a rather limited overview of color correction in general. > On top of this, what we see with our eyes is very different from the raw …

As others observed this is a common condition in plants (where repeated hybridizations can result in even higher ploidy conditions, e.g. tetraploid wheat, sexaploid sedums). But as…

Foraging for wild mushrooms is part of the ancient and rich culinary tradition of many European countries, where poisoning rates among those brought up in the tradition are very lo…

Correctly identifying any given mushroom can be hard, requiring the right taxonomic keys (and the comprehensive ones come in multiple volumes), a microscope, various stains and rea…

There are no simple rules like that which can reliably differentiate edible mushrooms from poisonous ones. The best way to start foraging is by learning some relatively unmistakeab…

It's not even an article I'd want to present to a high school class. An RGB pixel on your monitor is not emitting red, green and blue monochromatic (single wavelength) light. Same …

Exactly. I have the broadly same issue with my doctorate: I know essentially what I showed, but I only ever really completely understood my thesis's more abstruse passages around t…