Australian researchers have created tiny compartments to help supercharge photosynthesis, potentially boosting wheat and rice ...

Christopher Columbus and other early European explorers were best known for the “new” lands they discovered and the people ...

Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular ...

We read with interest the Lancet Commission1 on rethinking coronary artery disease, which shifts focus from ischaemia to atherosclerosis. The prominence of diet as a risk factor for atherosclerotic ...

Optimal packing problems have inspired mathematicians for centuries. Biophysicists now add a layer to the question: How do ...

As a lover of fashion, I was intrigued to visit Material World, the first festival at London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ...

Scientists have discovered a "perfect disordered hyperuniform" pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry ...

Institute of Polar Environment & Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Polar Environment and Global Change, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, ...

For years, a rumor has circulated online that scientists taught spinach how to send emails. According to social media posts, researchers engineered the leafy green vegetable to detect explosives in ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Obesity treatment is hurtling into a new era: once-a-week GLP-1 injections are edging toward the dramatic results of bariatric surgery, yet many of us remain tethered to the very habits that fuel ...

What is ethnobotany and why does it matter? If you are anything like me and are fascinated with plants, you might be surprised to learn about a discipline within the botany world that is not as well ...