What's the gist of pollination? Think of pollination as plant sex by proxy. Or if this makes you uncomfortable, think of it as the transfer of pollen (male sperm) to the female part of the…
Giant and infectious – an age-old virus found…
The small, the big, and the giant In a previous post, I've talked about the hyper-economical viruses, whose whole genome consists of as many nucleotide bases, as a single moderately big gene in higher organisms.…
Bloodthirsty butterflies (Amazing parasites, part 3)
In the previous posts of this series we saw the neurosurgeon jewel wasp and the caterpillars changing the color of their host to beautiful shades of red. You didn't really believe that that's all, right?…
There are no green animals!
I am sure you would immediately attack me with a ton of examples of animals which are green - from the majority of amphibians and reptiles, to the brightly colored in green tropical birds, insects,…
Revisiting Cleopatra's remedies
Undoubtedly, many of you have heard of the famous milk baths that Cleopatra used to take daily, which were believed to be her secret to beauty and irresistibility. Not surprisingly, Cleopatra's example was followed by…
What were they thinking when they published that!?
Some research I would love to be part of, some - not so much. You might find some of these funny, but they were all dead serious about their research when they were conducting and…
