The UW School of Pharmacy and Psychedelic Past, Present and Futures workshop hosted the third annual Plants as Psychoactives and Medicines tour. Held at Allen Centennial Garden, home of hundreds of ...

Several plants eaten by chimpanzees when they are ill or wounded have been found to have medicinal effects, providing some of the strongest evidence yet that our close relatives practise ...

STORY: Scientists are using AI to find potential new medicines - in plants. They say artificial intelligence can predict which unexplored plant species might hold potential for novel treatments. The ...

Nowadays, people love planting plants in their balconies or small gardens. This not only enhances the beauty of their homes ...

The chimpanzee was sick. It had diarrhea and tapeworms - not unusual for a wild chimpanzee in the Budongo Forest of Uganda. What intrigued the watching research team was what the ape did about it.

Chimpanzees appear to consume plants with medicinal properties to treat their ailments, according to a study publishing on June 20 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Elodie Freymann from the ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on July 7, 2025. Click here for that audio. Scientists studying chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest of Uganda noticed the creatures seem to be administering a ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner A young chimpanzee looks on during an outing ...

Source: Safruddin, Armas, Ulil Azhari, Adami, used with permission. The wild Sumatran orangutans of the Suaq Balimbing research area in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, have been the subjects ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. HUMBANG HASUNDUTAN, Indonesia — Indonesia has an enormous variety of plants with medicinal properties, and traditional herbal medicines such as ...