High in Fiji’s rainforest, the ant plant Squamellaria grows swollen tubers packed with sealed, single-door “apartments.” ...

While humans can escape the heat by seeking shade or shedding layers, plants remain rooted in place. So how do they survive ...

Researchers have developed a new formula to allow urban farmers to design their own "light recipe"—a combination of different ...

Scholars and schoolchildren alike have generally classified animals by the foods they eat: carnivores eat meat; browsers ...

Seeds provide most of the calories humanity eats, yet the cells that decide how big each seed becomes have remained a mystery ...

While plants often have mutually beneficial relationships with insects, a tuber in Fiji grows separate compartments for ...

A multiyear collaboration yields high-performing teff lines, offering hope for water-stressed farmers and advancing research on this underutilized crop ...

On a recent sunny morning, a small group of conservationists heads into battle in the hills above Redwood City. They don an ...

Scientists at MIT have turbocharged one of nature’s most sluggish but essential enzymes—rubisco—by applying a cutting-edge evolution technique in living cells. Normally prone to wasteful reactions ...

The calliope hummingbird, North America's smallest bird, migrates through Utah each summer. A banding event on July 19 at Red ...

The plant microbiome, consisting of diverse microbial communities associated with plant roots, leaves, and internal tissues, ...