Some stinky plants independently evolved an enzyme to take the same molecule behind our bad breath and turn it into the smell of rotting flesh.

In the Dolomite mountains of Italy, something unusual happened in a spruce forest. It waited. Not passively, like a crowd ...

Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado—the world's largest and most floristically diverse ...

Biologists have create a web portal for the world's most charismatic plants, ferns. The Florida Museum of Natural History has partnered with 35 herbarium collections across the United States to create ...

Spruce trees retain ancient memories of their environment and communicate with one other in the hours preceding a solar ...

For the past semester, students at UW-La Crosse have not only been advancing their knowledge in the classroom, they've been ...

An international study revealed that trees, particularly older ones, display a coordinated, anticipatory response to solar eclipses —signaling to each other with bioelectrical pulses in a manner ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its ...

The Wollemi pine, dubbed the “dinosaur tree,” was believed extinct for millions of years until its stunning rediscovery in ...

Discover why pollen is causing more suffering for humans, why climate change is exacerbating pollen counts, and why the Southeast is particularly affected.

Researchers have combined decades of scientific data, tracing how all birds are related. This provides an evolutionary map ...

Tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease, due in part to its ability to hide out for years in the lungs ...