Sun-loving blanket flowers are easy to grow and care for, bringing an explosion of color to the garden. This beloved wildflower is abuzz with butterflies and bees and has exceptional heat tolerance.

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Porous materials have a wide range of applications due to their capacity to act as filters, or lightweight structural ...

Stanford researchers discovered how plant cells decide whether to form breathing pores based on size and neighbor signals.

The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

Vanilla flavoring is widely used in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. The primary source, Vanilla planifolia, however, is ...

For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sensed temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Anxiety, grief, anger, fear, helplessness. The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially ...

Whether it’s scrolling past headlines of rising sea levels or watching natural disasters unfold in real time, the mental ...

Now that our summers are trending hotter for longer, leaning toward perennials that can tolerate heat makes sense in garden ...