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Maybe you already know about the night-blooming cereus, a cactus that usually lives up to its name by blooming only after ...

“Mathemalchemy” has been described as “a mathematics fever dream turned artistic playground for all math lovers (and haters, ...

The delicate bloom was a treasure, with moon-white petals arranged in a starburst pattern as pointed and precise as origami ... spread like an octopus near the hat rack. We tiptoed carefully ...

The term is also used to refer to a females of many other bird species, including turkeys and herons, and to a female octopus ... ART (12D: Origami or ikebana) Origami is the Japanese ART of ...

“We usually use Fairfax for [its large] kitchen to teach members how to cook authentic Japanese food, like yakisoba [stir-fried noodles] and takoyaki [fried octopus snacks ... Student Association, and ...

While the bite from a venomous blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata) can result in a painful, potentially life-or-death emergency for humans, new research indicates it’s part of everyday ...

But while other octopus species have evolved longer mating arms that allow them to maintain a safe distance during copulation and avoid this fate, blue-lined octopuses have a comparatively short ...