As the holiday season comes upon us you may want to decorate your home with some lovely colorful flowering plants. Besides poinsettias, there are holiday cacti that have flowers that may be white, ...

First, look at a main stem on your plant and identify the newest set of leaves branching from ... weeks and pinching out all ...

Trillions of insects move around the globe each year. Scientists are working on new ways to map those long-distance journeys.

The tiny spider, just 0.7 inches long with its legs outstretched, is also unique in its “thick and elongated” embolus, the ...

The Friends of Lake Wedington are mobilizing again to push for improvements to the now-closed recreation area west of ...

The lychee harvest season is under way in Madagascar - the world's top producer of the prized pink fruit - but growers and exporters are facing a major crisis, as forecasts indicate a staggering drop ...

Ephedra seeds found in an ancient burial pit may be the earliest evidence yet for the medicinal use of plants.

In this potentially valuable computational study, the authors conducted atomistic and coarse-grained simulations to probe the temperature-dependent phase behaviors of ELF3, a disordered component of ...

Special concoction also contained honey, sesame seeds, pine nuts, licorice, and grapes to make it look like blood.

As I look at the last of the Top 25 feeder birds in Idaho last winter, our leaves have started to pile up in the yard and ...

Brazil pushed for concerted action to alleviate hunger Monday as it hosted a summit of the Group of 20 leading economies.

Agricultural biotechnology is the use of scientific methods and instruments to transform living organisms, mainly plants and ...