Evolutionarily speaking, the ultimate goal of a lifeform is to reproduce and stave off extinction. Many plants and animals ...

Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...

Black-bulb yam’s mimicry tricks birds into spreading its berrylike clones. The plant's novel strategy helps it spread without ...

In a fossil-rich region of northeastern China, a well-preserved specimen of an ancient flying reptile has brought new clarity to a long-standing question in palaeontology. For decades, researchers ...

One of the most basic care points when it comes to growing houseplants is repotting them from time to time. But if you don't have a ton of experience trying to understand if know if the time to repot ...

So you lost plants this year to May’s slogfest and then to summer’s dry heat? The full toll might not even be apparent until next spring when dead/damaged plants try to shift back into growth mode. It ...

As gardeners, we want our plants to thrive. However, some plants succeed a little too well, to the detriment of other plants in our gardens and beyond. When such plants escape cultivation and ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off ...

In July 2025, flash flooding in Texas caused the death of at least 132 people (archived) as of this writing. Following this disaster, claims about Robert Plant, the former lead singer of rock band Led ...

AI data centers are driving a surge in new natural-gas power plants around the country. What does that mean for our clean-energy aspirations? The thousands of sprawling acres in rural northeast ...

Q. What makes a plant invasive, and why are they considered harmful? Whenever we hear about invasive species, we usually think about pest insects or arthropods such as Argentine ants or fruit flies.