The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

Arguably our coolest woodpecker, the yellow-bellied sapsucker has provided plenty of fodder for insults and jokes, ...

Recycling your Christmas tree When it comes to picking out your Christmas tree, it is important to consider what kind of tree ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

Clubmosses are not true mosses — they are the oldest group of vascular plants, which evolved 410 million years ago and ...

Plants rely on efficient internal transport systems to distribute essential mineral nutrients, yet how this distribution is ...

A 400-million-year-old fossil is shedding new light on the evolution of plants and their ability to grow large.

Engineers have turned one of nature’s most reviled body parts into a precision tool, using the hollow feeding tubes of dead ...

Verticillium stripe discolours the stem, plugs the xylem and inhibits the transport of nutrients and water in the stem of the ...

Considering trees’ need to intercept light for photosynthesis, the ideal angle of leaves and branches would be horizontal.

It is challenging to achieve scar-free repair of chronic wounds as they often feature the occurrence of multiple healing phases in an unpredictable and nonlinear manner. Here, the authors report a ...