The task of taking care of our children – without children’s museums, library story hours, trampoline parks, pools, the list goes on – might seem daunting. Proactively making a plan can be half the ...

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Pavlov's conditioning experiments with dogs are one of the most well-known studies in scientific history, and now research from the University of Western Australia (UWA) has shown that plants can ...

There are always lots of things to learn as a gardener, and many of them can only be learned through doing—through actually getting out there and getting your hands dirty. But there are some things ...

The huge aster family (Asteraceae) is recognized by the daisy-shape of the flowers. It includes sunflowers, asters, daisies and dandelions. (Benjamin Brink/2009) Learning to recognize 400,000 species ...