The best fake plants, though, are the ones that look almost as natural as real ones and suit a variety of tastes and styles. Our top picks include the West Elm Faux Potted Rubber Tree, a lifelike ...

Oct. 11, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method to recreate a robust and functional human immune system in mice using mononuclear cells from the cord blood. This new kind of mice, that ...

We edge past collections of carnivorous plants and below overhanging rhododendrons, but we're all here to see one thing: a titan arum is in flower. This huge, smelly, otherworldly plant has been ...

We’ve all been stumped for the name of a plant at times, whether shopping at a garden centre, visiting a garden or on holiday. Plant-id apps promise to identify plants from a picture taken on your ...

Plant hunters frequently travelled across the world to discover new plants for science. Discover some of their adventures here with stories from Kew's Archives. The Archives team at Kew has been ...

Shifting diets from meat and other animal products to plant-based diets has a high potential for reducing carbon footprints and mitigating climate change, as well as improving human health, according ...

In a mature flowering plant or tree, most of the cells that make up the xylem are specialised cells called vessels.

Despite theoretical expectations of balanced 1:1 sex ratios between females and males, many dioecious plant species exhibit sex ratio distortions. A recent study in persimmon shows how this can be ...