They say "every rose has its thorns", but some plants look, feel, and *smell* much sharper. Dan Smith is showing off just a ...

A study in Science examined how climate change will affect the habitat ranges of plant species. Another looked at what types ...

Spring is in full swing and the new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, “In Bloom: How Plants Changed our World”, ...

In a greenhouse on a narrow mesa top at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I’m working with a research team studying the role of the soil microbiome in how maize grows and tolerates drought. As the ...

In the intricate architecture of plant tissues, beauty often emerges from chaos, according to new research from Cornell researchers. Findings from a recent study show how randomness and growth ...

During the record-breaking heat of summer 2023, some Texans put their hopes of rainfall in the flowering of a silvery-gray shrub. An evergreen native to West Texas, South Texas, and the Edwards ...

In the summer of 2011, paleontologist and science writer Riley Black was on a mission. Walking through the Montana desert, she was on the lookout for a Tyrannosaurus rex. But that day, she wasn’t ...

US startup Carbon Robotics has unveiled what it says is the world’s first Large Plant Model (LPM), LPM is an AI system trained on 150 million labeled plants to transform how crops are managed. The new ...

Structural studies of the robust material called sporopollenin reveal how it made plants hardy enough to reproduce on dry land. When Fu-Shuang Li, a biochemist and research scientist at the Whitehead ...