Reindeer lichen. Credit: Marta Alonso-García Genetic analysis shows that reindeer lichens reproduce sexually as opposed to asexually more often than researchers thought. In northern Canada,…
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A Hesperapis regularis bee visits a flower of Clarkia cylindrica at Pinnacles National Park. Credit: Tania Jogesh Study of flowers with two types of anthers…
Researchers warn that if we don’t act quickly, many species, including species of salmon and southern resident killer whales, are likely to be functionally extinct…
Like any other plant, Arabidopsis thaliana or mouse-ear cress, needs nitrogen to survive and thrive. But, like maize, beans and sugar beet, it prefers nitrogen…
University of Copenhagen researchers have discovered how mosses became one of our planet’s most widely distributed plants — global wind systems transport them along Earth’s…
A bumblebee on a flower. Credit: Natalie Hempel de Ibarra Big bumblebees take time to learn the locations of the best flowers, new research shows.…
Pine tree in winter. Credit: Montage by Stefan Jansson and Pushan Bag How can conifers that are used for example as Christmas trees keep their…
Dr. Hannah Rees, postdoctoral scientist at the Earlham Institute, UK. Credit: Earlham Institute Plants have the same variation in body clocks as that found in…
Dead tree trunk in Peru rainforest. Credit: Roel Brienen For the first time scientists have provided clear evidence that tropical tree lifespan decreases above a…
Three roughly 2,000-year-old corn cobs from the El Gigante rock shelter site in Honduras. These corn cobs were genetically analyzed by an international team of…
Jackson School Assistant Professor Daniella Rempe (in white hat) and colleagues from the Eel River Critical Zone Observatory and Ben Gurion University install specialized sampling…
Open trap of Dionaea muscipula with potential prey. Middle: basal part of a trigger hair, where action potentials are elicited in the sensory cells upon…
Figs and fig wasps. Credit: WANG Gang Banyan trees are fig trees that begin their life as an epiphyte. The most noticeable feature of banyan…
Acorns of Quercus bambusifolia, an endangered oak found in China and Vietnam. Credit: The Morton Arboretum First complete global extinction risk assessment reveals bleak future…
The waterborne algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Credit: Image by He et al Carbon is one of the main building blocks for life on Earth. It’s abundant…
Pepper plants were grown in a greenhouse at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC) in Madrid to investigate how their below-ground behavior differed when…
Chemical compounds in muscadine grapes effectively inhibit an important SARS-CoV-2 protease. Credit: De-Yu Xie, NC State University Chemical compounds in foods or beverages like green…
Almond trees are at full bloom in late February. Most almond fields have two or more varieties within the field and require cross pollination by…
Leipzig is host to the oldest botanical garden in Germany. On an area of only three hectares, around 6500 of the 350,000 plant species worldwide…
Professor Robert Henry collects wild rice samples in northern Australia. Credit: (c) The University of Queensland Researchers investigating the heritage of thousands of rice varieties…