Secret Medicine of the Forest is the seventh main quest in Echoes of Aincrad. After completing Beaten to the Punch, you'll ...

New York's Garment District is a dense commercial neighborhood in the heart of Manhattan where the American fashion industry did much of its business for decades. At one time, all aspects of apparel ...

In a recent study, a team led by Würzburg botanist Kenji Fukushima investigated the genomic structure of the carnivorous pitcher plant Nepenthes gracilis and showed how polyploidy—the phenomenon of ...

Nepenthes is a worm that creates infinite maze-like traps to target crawlers, who scrape data to train large language models (LLMs). The author warns that Nepenthes 'actually eats everything that gets ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Deep in the forests of Malaysian Borneo lurks a most peculiar ...

A carnivorous pitcher plant (Nepenthes lowii) growing amongst ridge-top vegetation on Mount Murud, Sarawak. (Credit: Jeremiah Harris / CC BY-SA 3.0) It was reported a more than a decade ago that some ...

Carnivorous plants such as Nepenthes acquire the ability to reproduce even in soils lacking nutrients such as nitrogen by preying on insects. In addition, new research has shown that a type of ...

West 38th Street? I’ll admit I did a double-take when I first heard where the Garment District’s coolest men’s shop is. Nepenthes (a drug that makes one forget grief or trouble) is tucked behind a ...

Some species that grow where insects are scarce encourage animals to poo in their pitchers Nepenthes carnivorous plants look like toilets, trapping insects and other small creatures in a bowl-shaped ...