CINCINNATI – Springtime weather brings beautiful flowers, trees and ... dark green, rubbery blobs? If you've spotted any alien-looking, gelatinous globs in your yard, chances are you've stumbled ...

Springtime weather brings beautiful flowers, trees and ... dark green, rubbery blobs? If you've spotted any alien-looking, gelatinous globs in your yard, chances are you've stumbled across Nostoc ...

DAYTON — As it is said, April showers bring May flowers, but it also brings a jelly-like mass to yards. The jelly-like mass is an organism called the Nostoc commune and thrives in wet conditions.

Rain is essential for keeping your trees, lawn, and other plants alive and well. In some cases, however, you may notice that after it rains you see some weird green blobs on your property. Most people ...

A few years ago in June, I was at a reception where this young man was getting ready to head into basic training. I was at the party and having fun talking to people about all sorts of things when a ...

Blobs of strange, sometimes repellent, substances, appearing suddenly on the ground, have puzzled people for much of history. Queries to “Eye on Nature” often offer three separate examples. In times ...

The presence of Nostoc in longitudinally oriented schizogenous canals is a feature that separates Leiosporoceros from all other hornworts and represents a novel symbiotic arrangement in land plants.

Ce sont des espèces pionnières, qui peuvent vivre sur des milieux pauvres et basiques. Formant parfois de véritables tapis, elles jouent un rôle très important en matière de protection des sols contre ...