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Are There Plants That Can Photosynthesize By Moonlight? | IFLScience We Have QuestionsIn the foreground, an episode of IFLScience We Have Questions plays on a smart phone. In the background, there is a full Moon at night, and there are also plants growing from soil at the bottom and leaves from the top of the image.

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Are There Plants That Can Photosynthesize By Moonlight? | IFLScience We Have QuestionsIn the foreground, an episode of IFLScience We Have Questions plays on a smart phone. In the background, there is a full Moon at night, and there are also plants growing from soil at the bottom and leaves from the top of the image.
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Are There Plants That Can Photosynthesize By Moonlight? | IFLScience We Have Questions

clock-iconMay 25, 2026

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Jan Baptista Van Helmont's 16th Century "Willow Tree Experiment" Was One Of The First In Modern BiologyA willow tree in a park.

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Jan Baptista Van Helmont's 16th Century "Willow Tree Experiment" Was One Of The First In Modern BiologyA willow tree in a park.
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Jan Baptista Van Helmont's 16th Century "Willow Tree Experiment" Was One Of The First In Modern Biology

clock-iconJanuary 9, 2026
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The Science Of Magic: Find Out More In Issue 41 Of CURIOUS – Out NowCURIOUS Issue 40: The science of magic

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The Science Of Magic: Find Out More In Issue 41 Of CURIOUS – Out NowCURIOUS Issue 40: The science of magic
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The Science Of Magic: Find Out More In Issue 41 Of CURIOUS – Out Now

clock-iconNovember 30, 2025
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Traces Of Photosynthetic Lifeforms 1 Billion Years Older Than Previous Record-Holder Discovereda thin strip of square cells for a chaing among a rock. That is the fossil.

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Traces Of Photosynthetic Lifeforms 1 Billion Years Older Than Previous Record-Holder Discovereda thin strip of square cells for a chaing among a rock. That is the fossil.
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Traces Of Photosynthetic Lifeforms 1 Billion Years Older Than Previous Record-Holder Discovered

clock-iconNovember 17, 2025
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Purple Earth Hypothesis: Our Planet Was Not Blue And Green Over 2.4 Billion Years AgoArtist's impression of Earth in the early Archean with a purplish ocean.

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Purple Earth Hypothesis: Our Planet Was Not Blue And Green Over 2.4 Billion Years AgoArtist's impression of Earth in the early Archean with a purplish ocean.
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Purple Earth Hypothesis: Our Planet Was Not Blue And Green Over 2.4 Billion Years Ago

clock-iconOctober 14, 2025
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The World's Oceans Are Getting Darker, Raising "A Genuine Cause For Concern"A school of fish swims through deep water in the tropical western Pacific.

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The World's Oceans Are Getting Darker, Raising "A Genuine Cause For Concern"A school of fish swims through deep water in the tropical western Pacific.
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The World's Oceans Are Getting Darker, Raising "A Genuine Cause For Concern"

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Our Blue Oceans Were Once Green And Their Fate Could Be Purple Or RedThe waters off the Satsunan Archipelago, Kyushu may resemble those of the Earth 2.4 billion years ago, thanks to the ferric iron from nearby volcanic vents.

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Our Blue Oceans Were Once Green And Their Fate Could Be Purple Or RedThe waters off the Satsunan Archipelago, Kyushu may resemble those of the Earth 2.4 billion years ago, thanks to the ferric iron from nearby volcanic vents.
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Our Blue Oceans Were Once Green And Their Fate Could Be Purple Or Red

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Alien Plant With World’s Longest-Living Leaves Can Survive For Over 1,000 Yearswelwitschia mirabilis, hole among giant fibrous leaves on desert floor

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Alien Plant With World’s Longest-Living Leaves Can Survive For Over 1,000 Yearswelwitschia mirabilis, hole among giant fibrous leaves on desert floor
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Alien Plant With World’s Longest-Living Leaves Can Survive For Over 1,000 Years

clock-iconMarch 17, 2025
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These “Solar-Powered Sea Slugs” Steal Plants’ Superpowers To Feed On SunlightAnatomy of the sacoglossan mollusc Elysia chlorotica. Sea slug consuming its obligate algal food Vaucheria litorea. Small, punctate green circles are the plastids located within the extensive digestive diverticula of the animal.

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These “Solar-Powered Sea Slugs” Steal Plants’ Superpowers To Feed On SunlightAnatomy of the sacoglossan mollusc Elysia chlorotica. Sea slug consuming its obligate algal food Vaucheria litorea. Small, punctate green circles are the plastids located within the extensive digestive diverticula of the animal.
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These “Solar-Powered Sea Slugs” Steal Plants’ Superpowers To Feed On Sunlight

clock-iconFebruary 3, 2025
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Maps Show Antarctic Is Turning Green With Plant Life – A Troubling Sign For The PlanetMountain with rocks, mosses at Antarctic landscape

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Maps Show Antarctic Is Turning Green With Plant Life – A Troubling Sign For The PlanetMountain with rocks, mosses at Antarctic landscape
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Maps Show Antarctic Is Turning Green With Plant Life – A Troubling Sign For The Planet

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Where Do Trees Get Most Of Their Mass From? Because It Isn't The GroundSeveral potted plants.

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Where Do Trees Get Most Of Their Mass From? Because It Isn't The GroundSeveral potted plants.
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Where Do Trees Get Most Of Their Mass From? Because It Isn't The Ground

clock-iconDecember 3, 2024
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Photosynthesis In Animal Cells Achieved For The First Time Using Implanted ChloroplastsAnimal cells with chloroplasts

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Photosynthesis In Animal Cells Achieved For The First Time Using Implanted ChloroplastsAnimal cells with chloroplasts
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Photosynthesis In Animal Cells Achieved For The First Time Using Implanted Chloroplasts

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Why Are So Few Plants Blue?specimen of a sea holly plant, scientific name Eryngium. The stems and spiny flowers, which resemble thistles, are a bright blue colour.

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Why Are So Few Plants Blue?specimen of a sea holly plant, scientific name Eryngium. The stems and spiny flowers, which resemble thistles, are a bright blue colour.
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Why Are So Few Plants Blue?

clock-iconSeptember 2, 2024
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World First Map Of Antarctica's Plant Life Shows Rapidly Sprouting Continent Under Climate ChangeVegetation in Antarctica is dominated by lichen and mosses, as seen here on Livingston Island, maritime Antarctica.

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World First Map Of Antarctica's Plant Life Shows Rapidly Sprouting Continent Under Climate ChangeVegetation in Antarctica is dominated by lichen and mosses, as seen here on Livingston Island, maritime Antarctica.
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World First Map Of Antarctica's Plant Life Shows Rapidly Sprouting Continent Under Climate Change

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Tiny Algae Hold Hope For Renewable Energy With Negative Carbon Emissionsmacro image of green algae suspended in water

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Tiny Algae Hold Hope For Renewable Energy With Negative Carbon Emissionsmacro image of green algae suspended in water
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Tiny Algae Hold Hope For Renewable Energy With Negative Carbon Emissions

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