Meadowsweet, or Filipendula ulmaria, is a summer British wildflower that foams in ditches and water meadows. In 1897, a chemist called Felix Hoffman discovered salicylic acid could be produced from a ...

MUCH of the countryside presents as a calendar for the changing year, where nature continues to evolve, wax and wane as the months pass by. Nowhere is this more evident than along our roadside verges ...

DURING the summer weeks of July, most of our adult birds have fallen silent. Tired and dishevelled from the busyness of chick rearing, they begin to moult, replacing old feathers with a new set to ...

The researchers also found that the flowers and fruits of the plant have a distinct antioxidant effect MOSCOW, June 6. /TASS/. Researchers from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU, ...