If you’re a gardener – and definitely if you’re a farmer – you want to spend less on fertilizer but while growing more food.

Every fall season, nature lovers look forward to scenic fall foliage. But do we know the science behind why leaves do this once the temperatures start dropping? Here's how nature creates art during ...

The work, published in the journal Plant Physiology, describes a new system called “Stomata In-Sight.” The technology ...

Once the pineapple leaf-based nanoparticles had adsorbed copper, they could be ground into a powder that forensic ...

It’s that time of the year. The leaves are starting to change colors. This week the National Weather Service in Atlanta shared the satellite image above showing fall foliage changes in the Appalachian ...

Winter will be here soon enough, but enjoy those gorgeous fall leaf colors before any snowflakes arrive. Reach back and recall your grade-school days and the simple science behind deciduous tree ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

An unusual arrangement of leaves in a 407-million-year-old fossilized plant is complicating scientists’ understanding of plant evolution. Most land plants living today have spiral patterns involving ...

The fall is a beautiful time of year here in the Midwestern U.S. That beauty provides a lot of opportunities to integrate STEM instruction in students' learning. Here are a few that we tried and ...

Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...