The recent discoveries of palaobotany show that many of the main groups of vascular land plants can be traced right back to Devonian times as independent 'lines, and Dr. A. H. Church in a recent ...

Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...

Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...

The macromolecular organization of photosynthetic complexes within the thylakoids of higher plant chloroplasts has been a topic of significant debate. Using in situ cryo-electron tomography, this ...

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, the University of Cologne, and the University of ...

University of Guam associate director Else Demeulenaere, Ph.D., has contributed to research that reclassified Caesalpinioidea, a group of plants that includes the critically endangered Serianthes ...

Traditional plant stands seem to come in two styles: those mid-century-modern ones that stay low to the ground and fit just one big pot, and the more bookshelf-style bamboo units with a few ...

Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female because their flowers have both male parts and female parts. Pollen in plants is like sperm in animals. It comes from the male part of the ...

Plants need water to make their own food. This is called photosynthesis. It happens in plant leaves. Plants also need carbon dioxide from air and sunlight to make their food. Slide 1 of 3 ...

Neurological and vascular injuries occur less frequently. These injuries may include: Hamstring injury: A hamstring injury is a tear or strain in one or more muscles in the back of the thigh.

Strawberries may modestly enhance processing speed and lower systolic blood pressure in older adults, but they do not significantly improve overall cognitive function or vascular health.