botany

The contrast between members of the du Pont family who settled in Wilmington, Delaware, and the surrounding Brandywine Valley at the turn of the 19th century and those who toiled ...

The Amorphophallus titanumin, also known as Titan arums, is commonly called the "corpse flower," because of the wretched smell it emits ...

Two plants can communicate with each other by swapping messenger molecules, according to new findings by a Virginia ...

How a senior IBM scientist provided further evidence on previous experiments showing plants can read minds—and made some ...

Kirlian photography, auras: Photos taken using special methods show a light surrounding people’s bodies, which is said to ...

In the limestone caves of China's Guanxi Province, scientists have discovered a new type of nettle called Pilea ...

Detailed forecasts of climate change show the three most common bamboo species in China’s northwestern forests that pandas ...

Israeli plant geneticist Daniel Chamovitz believes that plants are more similar to humans than previously realized and even ...

The seed-dispersing role of a large mammal family that died out in the Pleistocene may have been adopted ...

Some plants may communicate by making clicking noises with their roots, according to new international research.

The seeds of the taily weed contain a mustard bomb that causes the Cairo spiny mouse to spit ...

The pitcher plant, Nepenthes gracilis, has a springboard-like lid that flicks prey seeking shelter from heavy rain directly ...

The unlikely pairing of botany with quantum physics has enabled U.S. scientists to better understand the first step ...

Flowers have a safeguard system that ensures the optimal number of pollen tubes reach each ovule for seed ...