The little pinprick spots on apples, pears, mangos, avocados, and potatoes are called lenticels (LEN-tih-sells), and they’re very important. Plants need a constant stream of fresh air, just like ...

Stanford Medicine researchers discover mechanisms of sex-linked genetic mutation giving rise to ginger felines.

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Kirigami is a traditional Japanese art form that entails cutting and folding paper to produce complex three-dimensional (3D) ...

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To those who know him, Maurice Hetherington is without doubt one of the bush's colourful characters, who, in his own words, loves an audience.

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Researchers identified an unusual genetic mutation in orange domestic cats that has not been found in any other animal, ...

At the end of his Test career, Virat Kohli has planted himself near dead centre of the Indian batting pantheon ...

Among the many hallmarks of the slice of literature known as diaspora writing, perhaps none is more frequently revisited than the significance of fruit to a child of immigrants. Taciturn parents ...

In a modern supermarket, shiny globes of oranges are stacked in pyramids. They appear identical and in their seeming perfection, unremarkable, a mundane fruit to slice into wedges and pack in a ...