Professor and HHMI Investigator Zachary Lippman and his colleagues are exploring how non-coding DNA segments, known as ...

Soils around the world are polluted, worn out, over-fertilised and exhausted. How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom ...

Rising temperatures make plants lose more water, weakening their ability to absorb carbon dioxide and survive heat stress.

It may sound strange, but plants can remember stress. Scientists are still learning about how plants do this without a brain.

The discovery of a new species in the Andean cloud forests of northern Peru has reinforced the vital role of citizen science ...

What if I told you plants might be our long-lost cousins? It sounds wild, but science shows we share more with the plant ...

It may sound strange but plants can remember stress. Scientists are still learning about how plants do this without a brain.

In a backroom at the California Academy of Sciences, Charlotte Peng and her colleagues are making millions of plants, immortal. Or as close as they can be, for researchers. They're using a ...

Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpse flower is scientifically known as amorphophallus titanum — or bunga bangkai in Indonesia, where the plants are found in the Sumatran rainforest. But to fans ...