#plants

What does conflict look like in a time of relative peace and stability in Star Wars? So much of what we know about…

Amber fossils are like a time capsule, preserving the three-dimensional structure of animals, plants, and other…

Here’s the thing about plants: They’re gorgeous, they improve just about any space, and in most cases, they’re…

Although plants make up over 80% of the biomass on Earth, for centuries they have been thought of as inanimate and…

Let’s be honest: While humanity has done a lot to support the arts, humans themselves make for a terrible live…

Nothing seems safe from the grips of plastic these days. Not national parks, not oceans, and, according to new…

As more of the shape of Greg Berlanti’s upcoming Little Shop of Horrors comes into focus, American Horror Story’s Billy Porter

Ornamental house plants with sustainably glowing leaves and flowers are now one step closer to reality, thanks to a…

A little over a year ago, I came up with an idea for story to turn my apartment into an indoor garden. This ended up…

From Jesus to “Jurassic Park,” people dream of resurrection, cheating death, defying nature, and uncovering the…

Lonesome George, the last of the Pinta Island tortoises, died in 2012. George’s story is the perfect extinction…

By solving a complex protein structure, biologists have unlocked a critical mechanism in plants that could lead to…

A corporate plant breeder (Emily Beecham) believes she’s created a flower that looks beautiful, smells divine, and…

Getting Impossible Foods’ plant-based burger alternative from the lab and onto consumers’ grills has been a long, dra…

The prestigious multidisciplinary MIT Media Lab built a “personal food computer” that worked so poorly that demos…

Despite a flashy debut at CES 2019 for version 2.0 of its Impossible Burger, Impossible Foods has only been able to…

Other humans aren’t the only living things affected by your smoking habit, scientists in the UK warn. Their new…

The remarkable ability of plants to respond to their environment has led some scientists to believe it’s a sign of…

Last month’s huge extinction report showed the natural world is under siege. But the hits keep coming for nature and…

With conventional medicines in short supply during the Civil War, the Confederacy turned to plant-based alternatives…