It was dubbed the Cactus Dome, after the Cactus bomb that caused the crater. The U.S. declared Enewetak safe for habitation in 1980. Currently, about 900 people live on the atoll though none live ...

Now researchers have found out why. Stephanie Crofts and Philip Anderson of the University of Illinois put the spines of six species of cactus to the test to see how the spines’ structure affects ...

Historical patterns of gene flow and vicariance influence the genetic and phylogeographic structure of populations (Avise, 2000) and are two of the most important mechanisms invoked to explain the ...

This shrubby, branching cactus will -- if provoked by touching ... wanted to know how spine structure influences its performance. They found that the same biomechanical traits that allow ...