The Not So Secret Life of Plants” features 50 paintings from 33 artists in the Orlando Science Center’s Fusion: A STEAM ...

The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

Of course, nobody will operate a fusion power plant until sometime in the next decade—probably about at the same time that we might expect some of the first small modular fission plants to be built.

PeerJ has announced the launch of PeerJ Open Advances in Plant Science, a new Open Access journal dedicated to publishing research and commentary that addresses the most pressing challenges in the ...

The science of plant communication We know birds, animals and insects constantly communicate with each other by making certain sounds. But when we think about plants, we do not ever think of them ...

Minimalist Tree Variations Illustration Minimalist tree illustrations in various shapes and colors. Choose from 171,962 Science Clipart stock illustrations from iStock. Find high-quality royalty-free ...

Why study plants? Because we need them! We need plants for food, shelter, clothes, biofuels and to improve and beautify our environment. When you study plant sciences, you get hands-on experience with ...

It may not be defined by acne and mood swings but plants actually go through their own kind of puberty too. Called the vegetative-to-reproductive transition, it only happens over the course of a ...

Agriculture Iron Age plant remains tell new agricultural story in east Africa At the place 'where hunting and gathering was invented,' scientists fill in the blanks on plant farming. By Laura Baisas ...

Hardware design engineer Mark Funderburk stands with BenchBot 3.0, the robot used to collect images for AI training Researchers at North Carolina State University and the N.C. Plant Sciences ...

In the weird world of chlorophyll-free “fairy lantern” plants, there’s a new species to admire. Fairy lanterns (Thismia) are a type of mysterious, parasitic herb that look like something ...