Researchers discovered that living horsetails act like natural distillation towers, producing bizarre oxygen isotope ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest fossilized forest, dating back 390 million years to a time when life was just getting a foothold on land. The ancient forest was made up of the first trees to ever ...

We explore the emerging science of plants from the vantage points of philosophy and ethics, with Harvard scholar Rachael ...

On the middle-altitude slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro grows a strange plant not found anywhere else on Earth. The giant groundsel, a plant that looks like a pineapple crossed with a saguaro cactus, ...