Biologists provide evidence for an alternative genetic mechanism that can lead to plants becoming self-pollinators. There are flowering plants that have the ability to self-pollinate, meaning that ...

A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

This separation of sexes in plants is called dioecy. One reason why dioecy may evolve is because of the negative effects that ...

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

Products that belong adapt to user needs, regulatory changes and environmental constraints, rather than fighting them.

Sulfur butterflies glide across Zorrillo Canyon, hundreds of them, moving back and forth against the cerulean sky. It's ...

Keeping in mind the growing impacts of climate change in Nepal, the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) organized ...

In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a ...

Four major North American beekeeping organizations released the first-ever North American Bee Strategy, a coordinated, continent-wide plan to protect honey bees, strengthen the viability of ...

Known for his superlative Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, Ross Cobb has opened his first tasting room in downtown Healdsburg.