Vegetables Cooking

Cooking Plants in a Green Sahara

Cooking plants in a green Sahara, reported in Science (AAAS) News and ScienceDaily 19 December 2016, BBC News 20 December 2016, and Nature Plants doi:10.1038/nplants.2016.194, published online 19 December 2016. A group of researchers from the UK and Italy have studied 110 broken pieces of pottery from archaeological sites at Takarkori and Uan Afuda in […]

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Cucumber Coils Revealed

Cucumber coils revealed, according to reports in ScienceNOW, ScienceDaily 30 August 2012 and Science vol. 337, p1087 DOI: 10.1126/science.1223304 31 August 2012. In 1865 Darwin published a book entitled On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants in which he describes how cucumber tendrils attach to a support and then form two helical coils, each […]

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