How wide was the smallest Christmas card you ever got? Maybe 5 – 10 cm? Or even less? Captured by the Beltsville Electron Microscopy Unit, part of the USDA. Sixty Symbols has produced this fantastic video in which they document…
Can you name the four that things plants need to grow? Now imagine these resources an environment like the Arctic, where temperatures can drop below −50 °C. Sir David Attenborough explains in this video how some plants manage to survive…
Poinsettias, or Christmas Stars, pop up everywhere once the holidays are coming closer. What looks like bright red flowers are specialised leaves, so-called bracts. Bracts turn from green to red when the plants start to flower in response to shorter…
Great video and article in which Dr Larry Silverberg explains how it is possible for Santa to deliver presents across the world using a nano-toymaker and relativity clouds.
Ecologist Dr Markus Eichhorn talks about the different christmas tree species, how they cope with the central heating in your home and why he prefers natural christmas trees to artificial ones.
I thought it would be a fun experiment to try and put together a Plant Cell Biology Advent Calendar, with christmas-sy entries related to plants, cells, biology or science! I am not entirely sure yet if I will manage to…
Our new science music video is online! This video is a collaboration between plant cell biologists at Oxford Brookes University, the University of Warwick and the musician Cyrus Mower. We love plant organelles and we want to share our passion…
