It was 2006 and Ismail Ebrahim, a botanist with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), was worried. While ...

Hoverflies, often mistaken for bees and wasps, pollinate three quarters of our crops. Now we’re discovering we can train them ...

This tiny plant performs real arithmetic in the dark. Here’s how it uses its calculations not only to survive, but to time ...

An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...