This single misunderstanding, that the mushroom is the fungus, is responsible for most of what people get wrong about fungi. It makes them seem like odd, short-lived things that appear…
Corrugated board is one of those inventions so completely ordinary that it is hard to see as an invention at all. Something like a hundred billion boxes are made from…
Most explanations of bruising stop at the first sentence: a knock breaks small blood vessels under the skin, blood escapes into the tissue, and you can see it. That is…
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Nettles are so ordinary in temperate countries that nobody looks closely at them, which is a shame, because the stinging apparatus is one of the more precisely engineered things…
It looks like the least interesting substance in the garden. Here are seventeen things it is doing.
1. Half of It Is Not There
Good soil is roughly half solid…
One fruit, several products, and two distinct sensations that most people assume are the same thing. Here are fifteen.
1. It Is a Dried Fruit
Peppercorns are the fruit of…