{"id":788745,"date":"2026-07-28T06:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788745\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T06:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:04:16","slug":"science-word-of-the-day-pando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788745\/","title":{"rendered":"Science word of the day: Pando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"elk-1cf03294-816c-11f1-9274-2762f7b17752\">Science word of the day: Pando<\/p>\n<p>Pronunciation: PAN&#8217;-doh<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-1cf03294-816c-11f1-9274-2762f7b17752-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">What it means: In Latin, &#8220;Pando&#8221; means &#8220;I spread.&#8221; And boy, does it. <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/r04\/fishlake\/recreation\/explore-forest\/pando\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/r04\/fishlake\/recreation\/explore-forest\/pando\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pando is a clonal stand of aspen trees in Utah<\/a> that weighs about 13 million pounds (6 million kilograms), making it the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/planet-earth\/plants\/pando-the-worlds-largest-tree-and-heaviest-living-organism\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/planet-earth\/plants\/pando-the-worlds-largest-tree-and-heaviest-living-organism\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/planet-earth\/plants\/pando-the-worlds-largest-tree-and-heaviest-living-organism\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">world&#8217;s heaviest living organism ever found<\/a>. Its 40,000 trees cover 106 acres (43 hectares) in Fishlake National Forest, and they&#8217;re all connected by a single, sprawling root system. Some DNA analysis suggests that this many-fingered megatree is tens of thousands of years old.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">How to use it in a sentence: When you walk through Pando, what seems like a normal stroll through an aspen grove is actually a trip through a single, ancient living being.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-1cf034c4-816c-11f1-8aba-6b9f15b8cdde\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">Can you crack our science word of the day puzzle, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chain-science-word-of-the-day-puzzle\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chain-science-word-of-the-day-puzzle\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chain-science-word-of-the-day-puzzle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chain Word<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>            You may like<\/p>\n<p>TOPICS<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flex-none p-2.5 text-white bg-neutral-950 hover:bg-neutral-500 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/science-word-of-the-day\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"\/tag\/science-word-of-the-day\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nscience word of the day<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Science word of the day: Pando Pronunciation: PAN&#8217;-doh What it means: In Latin, &#8220;Pando&#8221; means &#8220;I spread.&#8221; And&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-788745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}