Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder ...

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.

A new analysis reveals that nearly half of the genus Heliconia, a group of tropical plants popular for their bright, beak-shaped flowers, are threatened with extinction.

Scientists found that forests did not recover quickly after Earth’s worst extinction. Instead, plant life changed in phases.

Using data from over 10,000 herbarium specimens, Smithsonian scientists uncover the urgent conservation needs of the plants, ...

Multi-dimensional social relationships dynamically shape attentional biases toward in-group and out-group conspecifics in monkeys, with oxytocin modulating these interactions to reveal neurobiological ...

Rare and powerful compounds, known as keystone molecules, can build a web of invisible interactions among species.

It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key ...

For robotic materials to become reality, they need to dynamically shift between a flowing state, in which they can take on new shapes, and a solid state once they reach their final shape. Nature ...