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How Plants Move in a 24-Hour Period
Neat to watch. Learn more about how plants move over on this Penn State web site. If you would like to support the mission of Open Culture, consider making a donation to our site. It’s hard to rely...
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A Stunning, Hand-Illustrated Book of Mushrooms Drawn by an Overlooked 19th...
Mushrooms have quietly become superstars of the global stage. Sure, not everyone likes them on pizza, but who cares? In the 21st-century, they are hailed as role models and potential planet savers...
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Archaeologists May Have Discovered a Secret Language in Lascaux & Chauvet...
Care to take a guess what your smart phone has in common with Paleolithic cave paintings of Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira? Both can be used to track fertility. Admittedly, you’re probably not using...
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Behold 900+ Magnificent Botanical Collages Created by a 72-Year-Old Widow,...
“I have invented a new way of imitating flowers,” Mary Delany, a 72-year-old widow wrote to her niece in 1772 from the grand home where she was a frequent guest, having just captured her hostess’...
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Parrots Taught to FaceTime Each Other Become Less Lonely, a New Study Shows
It’s telling that the avian participants in a recent study wherein pet parrots, assisted by their owners, learned to make video calls to others of their kind were recruited from the online educational...
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Cats Migrated to Europe 7,000 Years Earlier Than Once Thought
The animals were imperfect, long-tailed, unfortunate in their heads. Little by little they put themselves together, making themselves a landscape, acquiring spots, grace, flight. The cat, only the cat...
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Watch Young David Attenborough Encounter Animals in Their Natural Habitats:...
Experience long ago conferred the mantle of authority on broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and author David Attenborough, age 97. In his late 20s, he landed at the BBC, producing live studio...
View ArticleDeath-Cap Mushrooms are Terrifying and Unstoppable: A Wild Animation
Mushrooms are justly celebrated as virtuous multitaskers. They’re food, teachers, movie stars, design inspiration… …and some, as anyone who’s spent time playing or watching The Last of Us can readily...
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How Scientists Are Turning Dead Spiders Into Robots That Grip
Kids who dig robotics usually start out building projects that mimic insects in both appearance and action. Daniel Preston, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rice University and PhD...
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When the US Government Commissioned 7,497 Watercolor Paintings of Every Known...
A picture is worth 1000 words, especially when you are a late-19th or early-20th century horticulturist eager to protect intellectual property rights to newly cultivated varieties of fruit. Or an...
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The Surprising Map of Plants: A New Animation Shows How All the Different...
Are pinecones related to pineapples? This was the unexpected question with which my wife confronted me as we woke up this morning. As luck would have it, Dominic Walliman has given us an entertaining...
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Hortus Eystettensis: The Beautifully Illustrated Book of Plants That Changed...
If you made it big in seventeenth-century Bavaria, you showed it by creating a garden with all the plants in the known world. That’s what Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt did,...
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The Incubator Babies of Coney Island: How an Early 1900s Boardwalk Attraction...
Step right up, folks! Shoot the Chutes! Thrill to the Fire and Flames show! Ride an elephant! See the Bearded Lady! Early in the 20th century, crowds flocked to New York City’s Coney Island, where...
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Free: Watch Our Planet, a Groundbreaking Nature Documentary Series Narrated...
The nature documentary series Our Planet opens with a startlingly stark observation courtesy of broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, and author Sir David Attenborough: Just 50 years ago, we...
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OpenVertebrate Presents a Massive Database of 13,000 3D Scans of Vertebrate...
From The Florida Museum of Natural History comes the openVertebrate project, a new initiative to “provide free, digital 3D vertebrate anatomy models and data to researchers, educators, students and...
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