On this week's episode: is our universe inside a black hole, Antarctic explorers, tracking teenaged turtles, and ...

A recent study by Chinese scientists has revealed the intricate molecular machinery driving energy exchange within ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

During a billion years of evolution, they’ve become masters of survival. And yet, fungi have also been integral to the development of life on Earth. In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial ...

To explain the remarkable diversity of life histories among species we must understand how evolution shapes organisms to optimize their reproductive success. The principal aim of life history ...

What do cells, genes, mutations, transposons, RNA silencing, and DNA recombination have in common? All were discovered first in plants. It sounds grandiose, but it’s true, and plant biologists delight ...