When telling a friend about your favorite type of butterfly, you probably start by describing its wings. After all, a butterfly’s wings are its most attractive feature. We know a lot about a butterfly ...

Fear comes with complicated, conflicting emotions that amp up storytelling in powerful ways. Terror on-screen can be exhilarating and fun, or it can be disturbing, haunting, shocking, and even ...

Vegetable issues are continuing, but the majority of questions this past week related to tomatoes. I’m hearing about plants ...

Lanthanides are a class of rare earth elements that in many countries are added to fertilizer as micronutrients to stimulate plant growth. But little is known about how they are absorbed by plants or ...

Any home gardener knows they have to tailor their watering regime for different plants. Forgetting to water their flowerbed ...

Scientists discover a giant thousand-year-old tree called Tessmannia princeps, a new species that reaches 131 feed high and 3 ...

Early summer brings our hottest, driest weather. It’s a major challenge both for landscape plants and for those in the ...

To help renters find a perfect match, SpareRoom, a roommate finding website, is hosting a free “speed roommating” event ...

Typical seed plants produce a shoot (composed of stems, leaves, and axial buds) with indeterminate growth from the shoot apical meristem (SAM). However, lateral organs, such as leaves, show ...

The economy, explained, with stories and surprises. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, "Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy." Now imagine that's actually a fun ...

This paper reviews the origin, development and use of air-coupled ultrasonic techniques for the study of plant leaf tissues and their water relations. The two techniques proposed so far are included: ...