Beyond the Human Eye

If you have ever gone away on holiday and forgot that you left some cheese in the cheese dish, then .... ..... this will be a fami...

Eating green potatoes that have been stored for too long in bright light is a big mistake. They can make you very ill - not becaus...

This lethal-looking weapon, just a couple of millimetres long, is the defensive weaponry deployed by a prickly pear cactus called Opunt...

A combination of unusually warm spring weather and spawning frogs that stirred up the mud and so released a lot of of nutrients into th...

A A vascular bundle in a transverse section of a grass leaf, stained with the fluorochromes Calcofluor M2R (blue fluorescence = cel...

This is a transverse section of the conceptacle of a brown seaweed Fucus sp., commonly known as saw wrack. It has been stai...

There was a time – before the advent of synthetic fibres based on plastics and petrochemicals - when the wealth ...

It's too cold in winter to spend a lot of time paddling around in rock pools but you can always take a few samples of seaweed home o...

Some seeds need to be sown while others - like wild oat Avena fatua - sow themselves. This is...

This is a thin section of the lower stem of water milfoil Myriophyllum sp. , stained with the fluorochrome calcofluor which binds to th...