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The major science-fiction films that get botany spectacularly wrong

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The major science-fiction films that get botany spectacularly wrong

Plants play a starring role in sci-fi films surprisingly often, but the botany in movies like The Martian, Sunshine and Prometheus doesn't always stack up, writes James Wong

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An Asian honeybee visits Gnetum luofense

Life

Thieving honeybees offer a glimpse of flowers’ evolutionary origins

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tobacco plant

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Insect-killing plant found by Australian highway is new to science

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Cherry tomato plants

Life

Tomatoes have a kind of nervous system that warns about attacks

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Thismia sitimeriamiae is extremely rare

Life

Strange new fairy lantern plant is already critically endangered

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flowers

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Taller and prettier plants are more likely to be studied by botanists

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Robot plants made from origami mimic transpiration to track the sun

Technology

Robot with origami leaves can follow the sun like a real plant

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Extinct date palms grown from 2000-year-old seeds found near Jerusalem

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Extinct date palms grown from 2000-year-old seeds found near Jerusalem

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orchids

Humans

Don't miss: Maternal artworks, blooming islands and rewarding maths

Culture

picture of mulberry tree, China

Life

The odd history of the mulberry tree's ties to silk, music and money

Mulberry, a book celebrating the marvellous tree, goes beyond its ancient links to silk production to explore its role in everything from the oldest banknotes to modern drugs

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Life

Crime-fighting botanist takes down murderers using plants

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Life

Rainforest romanticism is derailing our hunt for new drugs

Culture

Humans

Harsh: Europe's cannabis died just as the first farmers arrived

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Earth

Treeconomics: How to put a fair price tag on urban forests

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