botany
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The Latest Mining Boom? Plants That Eat Metal And Scrub The Soil Clean
Plants that eat metal sound like a biological impossibility. But these hungry little guys exist, sucking tiny bits of toxic metal from the soil. They don’t just clean the Earth, either — they can actually mine bits of gold and nickel for use by humans.
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Intricate, Ultra-Accurate Blueprints Of Botanical Life
Illustration and science have always gone hand in hand. If you want to understand something, drawing it is a good place to start. Macoto Murayama, a 29-year-old botanist and designer, goes even further: he carefully dissects and models flowers using 3D drafting software.