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8.3 billion tonnes and counting: our plastic obsession revealed

The Oxford ScientistAugust 7, 2017August 2, 201903 mins

Let’s play a little game. Look around you and take note of how much plastic you can see. Is there a water bottle on the side? Perhaps there’s some food packaging littering your floor. Maybe even a polypocket with some dubious notes from a hungover tutorial. Now guess how much of that stuff there is…

Sunflower slants

Bramman RajkumarJuly 22, 2017January 3, 202303 mins

It has long been known that plants grow directionally, curving and following sunlight to maximise rates of photosynthesis: twelve year olds across the country have demonstrated this in classroom experiments. Now, however, it seems that some plants might not just follow sunlight individually, but whole groups seem to organise into patterns of bending. Scientists in…