“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

Wheat that can help make its own fertilizer is no longer a speculative idea from plant biology textbooks, it is a working ...

Polar bears are expected to become extinct but there are some signs their DNA is changing and they are adapting to new ...

Scientists are exploring dandelion root extract's potential against colorectal cancer. Lab studies show it selectively ...

UC San Diego’s Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab is digitizing its collection of more than 5,000 pressings and making it accessible ...

As the planet heats, polar bears in southeastern Greenland appear to be adjusting to warmer conditions, new research from the ...

Scientists found that a fungus called Escovopsis living in ant nests has a long and surprising history. New research shows a ...

But humanity has been biohacking since ancient times—and almonds, a portable nutrient bomb, were a tempting snack for Bronze ...

Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) use the sense of smell in their legs to find mates. Researchers at the University of Greifswald used an electron microscope to discover "olfactory hairs" ...

Was Nanotyrannus a bona fide species or just a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex with a lot more growing to do? Scientists have settled that debate.

Is paying more for regeneratively farmed food the most efficient way to fight climate change? This group thinks we should try ...

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently published “The Butterflies of California,” an online book that contains a ...