Legendary cactus hunter Alberto Vojtěch Frič admires a pincushion cactus in Prague, 1924. The History Collection / Alamy Four ...

The tropical rainforests of Central and South America are among the most biodiverse places on Earth. Costa Rica alone is home ...

The rainforests of Borneo are often described as some of the richest ecosystems on Earth, yet they continue to produce ...

Wawel’s animal tapestries are far more than royal decoration. Woven in 16th-century Brussels for King Sigismund Augustus, ...

Roughly 16,000 species receive formal scientific names each year, yet the vast majority of life on Earth has never been ...

A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants ...

The new archive is just one part in an international group of herbariums aiming to assess as many plants and fungi species as possible.

Mary-Dell Chilton, Ph.D., an American pioneer in plant sciences known as the “Queen of the Agrobacterium,” died on June 24, ...

Why Mid-Market OEE Stays Stuck in the Mid-60s, and Where the Real Leverage Sits - It is Monday morning. The operations’ ...

Here, we investigated the spatial diversity of DMSP, microbial communities, and their genetic capacity for DMSP synthesis and catabolism (Fig. 1) in SO seawater and sea ice during the austral winter ...

Fascinated by plants? Enjoy research? Want to make a difference in agriculture, health, biotechnology, the environment or industry? Plant biology might be the major for you. Plants are the primary ...

Why study plants? Because we need them! We need plants for food, shelter, clothes, biofuels and to improve and beautify our environment. When you study plant sciences, you get hands-on experience with ...