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A new sunflower family tree used skimmed genomes to increase the number of species sampled, revealing that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, ...

Scientists named 190 new plants and fungi in 2025, many already threatened. New DNA tools are speeding discovery as habitat ...

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On damp days in the mountains of northern Japan, one of the most remarkable flower transformations unfolds. A patch of unassuming white flowers, that you’d barely notice against the forest’s deep ...

Citizen science platforms, including iNaturalist, are leading to major new discoveries and are becoming crucial to the work ...

It's time for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. I'm joined by two of the show's reporters, Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson. Good to have you both back here. EMILY KWONG, ...

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With air temperatures down in the 20's away from Louisville this morning and a couple other conditions being just right, we saw some frost flowers! I have to give a huge shout-out to Astrid Richter ...