In the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp is defined as a cannabis plant that has less than .3% delta-9 THC by dry weight. THC is the ...

There is no official definition of biofertilizers. But several industry experts give their take on this growing segment of agriculture.

The etymology of mistletoe — a plant with small, oval evergreen leaves and waxy white berries — may strike some as repugnant.

Some experts think “xenobot” cells that reorganize themselves after death signify a form of consciousness—while others ...

The skincare world loves a good debate, and few topics spark more passion than natural versus synthetic ingredients. Social ...

Misinformation is usually framed as a uniquely human failing, a byproduct of social media feeds, partisan politics, and click-driven news cycles. A growing body of research now argues something more ...

The enthusiasm of going vegan can sometimes lead us down paths that make the journey harder than it needs to be.

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

From morning glories spiraling up fence posts to grape vines corkscrewing through arbors, twisted growth is a problem-solving ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

A combination of two classical biological laws, the global constraint principle delves deeper into complex biological ...