replenish its water when it is thirsty, but some spiders have to wait in their webs. Edmonds and Vollrath studied the garden-cross spider's webs, which are eaten and rebuilt each day. It was found that a hygroscopic coating on the web absorbs water from the atmosphere and when eaten by the spider, helps restore water balance. A newly discovered use for the fragile, deadly beauty of the spider ...
They made choices about what to grow, not just what to gather. The true garden was born.In many countries, parks with gardens took on a highly formal appearance, as if humans wanted to prove that they could control natures completely. In England, these artificial savannahs changed character in accordance with ideas of "naturalism." Parks, especially on large estates, were designed to seem ...
Can we and our descendants continue to evolve, and to improve our beloved planet, and look forward to a perpetual Garden of Eden?No, we can't. Our problem is the sun. Unlike Earth, it is not a quiet and placid structure. Gravity has compressed the Earth as far as possible and it will stay as it is indefinitely - if left to itself. The sun, however, is huge, and its gravitation is capable of ...