If Nevada’s bumble bees went extinct, what would the local ecosystem look like? This is a question the Mountain States Bumble Bee Atlas is trying to answer, and its organizers are calling for ...

A stunning evergreen, flowering vine with thorny, branching stems, the bougainvillea is native to South America. Since it's a ...

As is in the name, eastern spring beauty flowers show off their beauty in the early months of the season, but can also bloom ...

Flowering currant is a classic example of a serviceable American plant that, when transported to different continents, takes ...

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 ...

Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number of ways: somatic mutations can contribute to the germ line more easily as flowers develop at the end of branches composed of somatic cells ...

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 ...

Plant breeding is the production of plants by selective mating or hybridization. It is the traditional mechanism for producing new varieties of plants for horticulture and agriculture ...

Ciaran Cassidy’s film revisits an Irish television show that judged stay-at-home moms on budgeting and appearance. By Alissa Wilkinson Errol Morris returns to his main obsessions — evil and ...