In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? I n March 2009, ...

Nano-agrochemicals and nanomedicine are two areas of active research. While there are some distinct differences there are areas of overlap and lessons which can be learned. Here, the authors ...

But this is the worst thing you can do for your bougainvillea.

A mass of glossy oval leaves on tree-like branching stems, the money plant (Crassula ovata) is one of the most distinctive indoor plants. It is prized in China and across the globe by practitioners of ...

That’s a question a Pretoria regional court magistrate will be pondering this week as prosecutors, arguing in aggravation of sentence, call experts to testify about the extreme conservation value of ...

For example, the older two sites (Northeastern China’s Daohugou and Dawangzhangzi plant assemblages) are dominated by cone-producing gymnosperms like cycads, ginkgos, conifers and several ...

Cycads are ancient gymnosperms (cone-bearing plants) which evolved long before the Gondwanan supercontinent separated. These tough, hardy plants saw the dinosaurs come and go, and their relatives ...

The 16 Lanatus Cycad plants were on the back of a bakkie. Tony Jiyane (42), Sphesihle Ngwenya (33) and Stanley Shakwane (48) appeared for formal bail applications. Bail was denied and postponed to ...

She previously worked at one of the largest advertising agencies in the southwest. Carex, or sedges, are grass-like, mounding plants that offer year-round textural interest and color. Most sedges ...

Nitrogen fixing bacteria may have helped some cycads survive to the present day DURHAM, N.C. -- Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain ...