If the calendar is viewed as a circle, March and September would be directly across from one another with the spring equinox representing new life and the autumnal equinox marking the harvest. Autumn ...

Welcome to our gardening adventure. Let’s grow it together! Many years ago, when we first acquired our current garden, I was enthusiastically putting in plants and pulling weeds when I came across a ...

Starlet anemone grow tentacle arms based on how much food they intake. Courtesy of Anniek Stokkermans/European Molecular Biology Lab Heidelberg To many humans, the popular proverb “you are what you ...

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Growing Grecian windflowers can add a pretty new perennial to your garden. This spring bulb is also known as Anemone blanda and comes in range of colors, providing low clumps of blooms that easily fit ...

Just when your summer flowers are beginning to fade, the lovely, elegant Japanese anemone bursts into bloom in your fall garden. This delightful perennial, also known as windflower because of the way ...

The number of tentacles that sea anemones grow isn’t set genetically. Instead it depends on how much they have to eat. If the same were true for people, it would mean that the more we ate, the more ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. The genome of the sea anemone is not as simple as we thought. The complexity of its regulatory ...

They’re the first animals known to turn food into extra limbs. By Cara Giaimo People have a lot of strategies for dealing with the effects of large meals — constitutionals, antacids, workouts, naps.

The sea anemone is an oddball: half-plant and half-animal, at least when it comes to its genetic code, new research suggests. The sea creature's genes look more like those of animals, but the ...

Scientists have discovered that the number of tentacle arms a sea anemone grows depends on the amount of food it eats. Your genetic code determines that you will grow two arms and two legs. The same ...