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This concerns the story discussing the ability of flowers to protect their reproductive parts by closing up during a rain storm. I recently observed what may be other mechanisms to achieve the same end in flowers that can’t close up. As a storm approaches, Queen Anne’s lace dips its flat umbels to a vertical position […]

Shut up! A thunderstorm’s on the way

The narrow-leafed gentian, a mountain blossom, is the first flower shown to close when a thunderstorm apporaches.

A bad month for condors

Two California condors in the wild—a hatching and a just-released juvenile—died the same week, as a third went missing.