Mistletoe's cells are broken at a fundamental level
3 May 2018
All complex organisms rely on tiny nodules called mitochondria to supply their cells with energy – but mistletoe’s mitochondria don’t work and yet it survives
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A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land
30 April 2018
A plant fossil that lay unnoticed for a century is unexpectedly large for something so old, and it could upend our ideas about the evolution of land plants
Trees may have a ‘heartbeat’ that is so slow we never noticed it
20 April 2018
Trees repeatedly move their branches up and down during the night, and this may reflect water being pumped along the branches – just like a human pulse
