For 450 million years, plants and soil fungi have been trading partners. The fungi weave through plant roots, delivering ...

From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...

If you built a potato-powered clock as a child, you know plants can generate electricity. But scientists are now developing sophisticated methods to harness this power on a much larger scale. The ...

Slippery, drippy goop makes Ralstonia bacteria devastating killers of plants, causing rapid wilting in tomato, potato, and a ...

Scientists have developed a powerful new microscope that reveals, for the first time, how plants store a 'memory' of winter ...

On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled tree twists toward the sky. It is Methuselah, a Great ...

In this clip I am teaching my kindergarteners about the parts of a plant during our final virtual science class of the year.

The students in Bostian Elementary School science teacher Brandy Hunt’s class got a hands-on lesson about what happens after ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

Enjoy our cross-curricular unit on hibernating animals, designed to engage young learners in the incredible ways animals ...