How the Christmas pudding, with ingredients taken from the colonies, became an iconic British food

Christmas pudding is a relatively recent concoction of two older, at least medieval, dishes. The first was a runny porridge ...

If You Don’t Have This on Your Thanksgiving Table, You’re Missing the Best (and Weirdest) Part of the Holiday

Thanksgiving is often a time when family comes together and pretends that everything’s going well, and there is perhaps no ...

American bladdernut is a flowering tree that's lovely throughout growing season

If you are looking for an aesthetically pleasing plant that is native to Ohio, the American bladdernut might be just what you ...

Federal judge could pause razing of trees on American River Parkway in Sacramento

The American River Parkway is at the heart of a lawsuit filed by Sacramento nonprofits and the Center for Biological Diversity, a national environmental conservation group. A judge will consider ...

General Sherman: the world's largest tree draws millions to Sequoia National Park

THREE RIVERS, CA (Amazing America) — America is home to the most massive tree on Earth: The General Sherman. The giant ...
eLife

Microbial consortia in salt marsh sediments are sequentially buried over millennia and genomic complementarity analysis indicates an important role in complex carbon decomposition

This study provides a valuable genome-centric characterization of microbial communities across deep sediment cores from a Spartina patens salt marsh. The study provides claims on the metabolic ...