Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

In this twist on Cooking with Carson, we haul and review four Dollar Tree Science Kits from the Science for Kids brand. These experiments are one dollar each and perfect for learning and play when ...

Farmers are struggling to adapt to climate change and its challenges, but new research has some helpful advice.

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“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.