Car maker develops its own flower species

Toyota has created a new plant species designed to offset the CO2 created by its Prius assembly operations. By RICHARD BLACKBURN.

Read about it HERE

What do you think these plants are doing to use MORE CO2?

Do you think we should be planting these all over high-polluting cities?

What do you think about what these engineers have done?

A Singing Professor Espousing the Joys of Photosynthesis

I found a sort of silly, but actually very well done, YouTube video on Photosynthesis...some of you might find it a nice change of pace to the computer-generated drone of the textbook animation. It's a bit long, but you can watch it in segments. Enjoy!

I also posted the links to a few other teacher-approved videos in the sidebar. If you find any others that you think are good, send them to me or one of the other bio teachers and we can post them for others to see!

What the heck is that?!

Just when you thought you knew everything about cell organelles it turns out scientists are still studying them and winning Nobel Prizes to boot! Check out the article: Nobel Prize for Ribosomes

This just in from Edgar!

Before Lucy came Ardi
Since we began the year discussing evolution a new human ancestor even older than "Lucy" has been discovered in Ethiopia - meet "Ardi!"

Possibly how cells came into being...

Since we're starting to study cells, I thought this was an interesting article looking at how cells might have first evolved. Also, there is a cool 30 second video at the end.

Biologists on the verge of Creating new form of Life

Let us know your thoughts!

Judgement Day - ID on trial

After viewing the first half of "Judgement Day", do you have any thoughts so far?

Shark Evolution

Since we're studying evolution I thought this was a nice little article about how science works. Let us know your thoughts!
In a Shark's tooth, a new Family Tree