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 ...

Moss spores survived an extended stay on the outside of the ISS and remained capable of germinating once back on Earth. Their ...

While lunar gardens are still out of reach, the study sheds more light on terrestrial biology that may not be limited to our planet's surface ...

Long before modern pharmaceuticals, our ancestors turned to plants to find cures for ailments from infections to parasites to ...