Many plants smell "good" — to humans that is — but some go several steps in the other direction, presenting themselves to the ...

Laboratory could improve crop resilience In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists have acquired detailed knowledge about the internal structures and mode of regulation for a specialized ...

Resistance to disease should mean a longer life, but researchers have found that a mutant protein that helps a plant fight ...

Chinese researchers have developed a technology that sheds light on how the three-dimensional (3D) organization of plant ...

When these crucial pollinating species visit flowers and other plants, they produce a number of characteristic sounds, such ...

Healthy soil is the key to vibrant plant growth, and understanding its science can help gardeners create a thriving, ...

Not all plants can be stored in a seed bank. Cryopreservation offers an alternative, but critics question whether this form of conservation will work.

In plants, some of the steps are less well understood. So in a striking act of scientific creativity, Liu turned to the animal kingdom and to human medical science to figure out what was going on.

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 plants and agriculture, experience that ...

Plants may have also developed strategies more ... Brazil botanist Vinícius Brito said in a statement. Laura is Popular Science’s news editor, overseeing coverage of a wide variety of subjects.

I’m joined today by the author of a new book on the surprising science of plant behavior. Feltman: Zoë, thanks so much for sitting down to chat. Schlanger: It’s so great to be here.

Published in 1973, the book contained a “mix of real science, flimsy experiments, and unscientific projection,” Schlanger writes. The authors claimed that plants could feel and hear ...