Most living things don’t cope well with having millions of volts put through them, but one tropical tree species appears to benefit from being struck by lightning.

Block printing captured Lili Arnold's attention because of its relatively simple components and technique—no giant presses ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A new analysis reveals that nearly half of the genus Heliconia, a group of tropical plants popular for their ... are composed of waxy, elongated leaves called bracts. Many Heliconia flowers ...

Almost all parts of the tree, including the bark, pods, and leaves, are eaten or used as ingredients in traditional herbal medicines. In fact, researchers have found over 90 bioactive plant ...

So tasking yourself with a demanding tropical plant like the fiddle leaf fig can have you questioning your care routine. Fear not, learning a care guide from the experts is the best way to ensure your ...

The leaf economic spectrum and the root economic spectrum evolved independently, showing no dependence on the variations in life form. In conclusion, in desert plants, leaf and root variations occur ...

In this research, we designed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for five diseases that affect apple tree leaves based on the AlexNet model ... At present, the traditional method for the ...