As global warming alters ecosystems, the need to predict the reorganization of Earth's biodiversity has become urgent. New ...

Researchers studied how plants search for water when soil becomes dry. Plants normally grow roots downward due to gravity.

If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks ...

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...

Roots "feel" gravity to extend and anchor themselves in the soil, but they can alter their growth direction toward a water source when needed. However, according to a new study by scientists at the ...

High up in the mountains, in a rocky world left behind by melting glaciers, life finds an unlikely jumpstart—thanks to poop.

April’s Earth Month should have made us curious about what we can do to tread more lightly on the planet. We may think of ...