Learn about the ability of some fig trees to store atmospheric carbon dioxide and turn it into stone, a process that could ...

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Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new ...

Fig souring (or sour rot) renders fruit inedible. It’s caused by yeast and bacteria, usually spread by insects. You’ll know it by the fermented smell, clear ooze from the fig’s eye and eventually, ...

Scientists discovered that fig trees in Kenya can store carbon dioxide as calcium carbonate rocks inside their trunks and ...

Kenyan fig trees can literally turn parts of themselves to stone, using microbes to convert internal crystals into ...

When you picture a flower and a pollinator, the odds are you’re imagining a colorful, perfumed flower, and a honeybee. Perhaps, if you’re feeling adventurous, a butterfly or a hummingbird. That’s a ...

It’s that time of year, when midsummer is in full bloom, and the weather is congenial to being in the great out-of-doors.