Under a strictly controlled environment in the Botany Greenhouse grows a sweet fern — one amongst many of its like. Every now and then it feels a hand or a tweezer poking its stalk, its weeds cleared ...

Plants are being used to help solve crimes. The pollen and seed s they can leave behind can often become key pieces of evidence. But, how does this all work? While plants aren’t able to testify in ...

To mark America's 250th birthday, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University has an exhibition rich with artifacts ...

In efforts to better understand how plant photosynthesis is regulated, scientists are studying how Rubisco activity responds ...

Experience the fascinating journey of plant growth in this captivating time-lapse video. Watch as a tiny seed is planted and, ...

The Academy of Natural Sciences and the Mütter Museum have exhibitions about the role of plants in nation building.

Plants possess extraordinary and often beautiful means of thriving in diverse environments. To explore plant structure and function in different ecosystems, and to better understand how a changing ...

Plants have got you surrounded. They’re in your toothpaste, your bedsheets, and your regular Taco Bell order. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll find out what botanists study and how ...

In an innovative paper published today in the journal Plants, People, Planet, scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Huarango Nature and paramotorists from Forest Air, highlight the exciting ...

Cambridge University Botanic Gardens (CUBG) will offer a certificate in botany, based on recently uncovered plant specimens ...

What are plants made of, and how did a little tomato go all the way to the Supreme Court? When you eat a salad for lunch, you’re digging into a giant pile of plant organs. That’s right—plants are made ...