In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

Abstract: Synchronization is a major aspect in converged wired and wireless time-sensitive networks. Heterogeneous synchronization mechanisms are involved. From an end-to-end perspective, the ...

The time a spider plant mom remains tethered to her spiderette can be influenced by the daughter plant's environment.

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

One ocean-dwelling creature found in many tropic waters is known to be able to reserve its own life cycle, cheating death.

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Abstract: Most graph-network-based meta-learning approaches model instance-level relation of examples. We extend this idea further to explicitly model the distribution-level relation of one example to ...

In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the eye of conservationists ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in Japan, said in a statement. “For many years I have been fascinated by plants ...