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Plants are being used to help solve crimes. The pollen and seed s they can leave behind can often become key pieces of evidence. But, how does this all work? While plants aren’t able to testify in ...

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Duke’s decision to close its herbarium threatens to uproot a legacy of scientific discovery, climate research and education that has shaped the field of botany for generations.

At first glance, plant and animal cells have a lot in common: they’re both highly organized, keep their DNA tucked away in an envelope, and are kinda juicy inside. But plant cells have evolved some ...

Under a strictly controlled environment in the Botany Greenhouse grows a sweet fern — one amongst many of its like. Every now and then it feels a hand or a tweezer poking its stalk, its weeds cleared ...

When you eat a salad for lunch, you’re digging into a giant pile of plant organs. That’s right—plants are made up of organs, only theirs follow a totally different set of rules from our own. In this ...

"Cyborg botany" sound like something from an 80s cyberpunk novel, but it's what Harpreet Sareen and Pattie Maes are working to make reality. As members of MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group, the ...

A Lanonia palm with mottled leaves is among the plant specimens in Lyon Arboretum’s collection. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser ...

A yellow-flowered California native plant that has rarely been seen for 68 years has been rediscovered in Vasco Caves ...