A major fire in January at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants in Moss Landing showered 55,000 pounds of toxic ...

Drylands, which include some of the world’s most arid and semi-arid ecosystems, cover nearly half of Earth’s land surface and ...

Due to these challenges, there is a need to investigate how epigenetic mechanisms influence gene capture during polyploid ...

Humans evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to be the ultimate flexible eaters—chasing carbohydrates and fats from ...

Tomato and tobacco plants make distinctive sounds when cut or dehydrated, a new study has found. Those sounds change depending on the plant emitting them and the type and severity of the threat that ...

Evolution isn’t just a slow, grinding gear that turns over millions of years; and it doesn’t only happen on remote islands.

In a new study, physicists from the United States and Israel may have gotten to the bottom of a quirky behavior of growing plants—and a mystery that intrigued Charles Darwin himself during the later ...

A new study suggests that well-designed plant-based dietary plans could match the nutritional quality of a ...

A tiny pilot study found that so-called chameleon vines mimicked plastic leaves, but experts say poor study design and conflicts of interest undermine the report. To some, the paper was thrilling. It ...

Several severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants have emerged due to continual genomic mutations. The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified these variants as ...