Generate your own plant with Max Richter’s interactive. Adjust leaf shape, density, and curvature. The plane updates in real-time in the browser.
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Category Archives: plants
Battling plant extinction
In a story about how scientists are using drones to fight plant extinction, Reuters Graphics uses a blend of video, illustration, and statistical graphics. I like the part in the middle where the mixed media seamlessly comes together.
Tags: conservation, drone, plants, Reuters
Posted by in conservation, drone, Infographics, plants, Reuters
Rhythm in plant cells
Researchers are studying the electrical rhythms in plant cells. I’m not sure what that means exactly or what they’re measuring, but it sounds fun.
Posted by in plants, rhythm, Statistical Visualization
Modern reproduction of an 1868 catalog of flower illustrations
Nicholas Rougeux, who has a knack and the patience to recreate vintage works in a modern context, reproduced Elizabeth Twining’s Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants:
If someone told me when I was young that I would spend three months of my time tracing nineteenth century botanical illustrations and enjoy it, I would have scoffed, but that’s what I did to reproduce Elizabeth Twining’s Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants and I loved every minute.
The best part is that you can select flowers in the text or on the illustrations to focus on a specific parts, which makes descriptions easier to interpret.
Read more on Rougeux’s process here.
Tags: illustration, plants, recreation
Posted by in illustration, Infographics, plants, recreation
Food Evolution documentary looks at science, money, and fake news around GMOs
0000-0003-0319-5416 Food Evolution aims to take a look at the science underlying the heated rhetoric of the GMO debate. Filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy, narrator Neil deGrasse Tyson and on-camera experts walk through the major claimsTake a hike with citizen science!
Planning a hike this summer? Be a trail blazer and add some citizen science to your adventure. Our editors highlight five projects, below, to add to your backpack! Check out the SciStarter blog for updates on your favorite projects and find … Continue reading
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Understanding Images: A Genetic Framework in Legumes Controls Infection of Nodules
In a piece reflecting on June’s PLOS Genetics issue image, authors Simon Kelly and Simona Radutoiu discuss the science behind their image. Authors: Simon Kelly and Simona Radutoiu, Aarhus University, and Carbohydrate Recognition and Signalling Centre in Denmark. Competing … Continue reading
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Posted by in Biology, Blog, cell biology, Cell signalling, genetics, Image, Microbiology, molecular biology, open access, plants, PLoS Genetics, Research, Understanding images
iSeeChange: documenting the weather around us
From shoveling the third heavy snowfall of winter to spotting the first crocus of spring, each day without fail we experience our environment. Meaning each of us is a potential wealth of information about our local environment. Information that if … Continue reading
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Posted by in citizen science, Climate, climate change, data repository, environment, farmers, NASA, plants, weather
Monarch Larva Monitoring Project Helps Citizen Scientists Build Connections to Nature
This guest post by Eva Lewandowski describes her experiences with citizen scientists from the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project, which was featured in our recent Spring themed newsletter. Check out the rest of the projects on that list here. The Monarch … Continue reading
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Is Climate Change Causing the Seasons to Change? Citizen Scientists in the UK Help Find Out with Nature’s Calendar
Interested in more spring themed citizen science projects? Check out the ones the SciStarter team has handpicked for you here! Or use SciStarter’s project finder to find one that piques your curiosity! In 1998 Tim Sparks, a research biologist at … Continue reading
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Posted by in animals, citizen science, climate change, environment, nature's calendar, plants, spring