Study published in Current Science describes Erythrina resupinata, which blooms after forest fires burn all vegetation to crisp, showing that fires aren't always destructive.

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The “total fertility rate” is a coarse estimate of the number of children an average woman will bear. A population will be ...

As part of our Greatest Interviews series, we return to a full and frank 2002 chat with the Beatle ahead of his marriage to ...

When reality gets too heavy to bear, I sometimes like to shake off the dust of this mundane world and run headlong into the ...

A boy with the “greenest of thumbs” and an uncanny knack for plant-grafting is drawn to life in a remarkable new story by ...

Software engineer Abraham Herrera’s pandemic project was creating what he’s dubbed the Plant Post — a little library but with ...

Borne, science journalist Carl Zimmer roots the “mistake” in the past of a historically neglected field: aerobiology, or the science of airborne life. Zimmer begins his chronicle in the 19th century ...

In plants that haven’t yet experienced stress, defence genes are mostly inactive to prevent unnecessary and costly immune ...

In “Taking Manhattan,” Russell Shorto pays close attention to the darker aspects of colonial life on the island at the center of the world. By Jacob Goldstein A lavish photo book collects ...

If there’s a single origin to my scientific career, it’s the moment Charlie Longenecker introduced me to chicory.

fill an approximately 25-million-year gap in knowledge by reconciling the molecular clock—or pace of evolution—with the fossil spore record—the physical evidence of early plant life gathered by ...