Milkweed is beautiful, easy to grow, and necessary for butterflies to survive. Here's how to grow and care for milkweed the ...

Despite their fundamental differences, plants, animals, and fungi share certain metabolic processes. Biologists at the U.S.

Asexual reproduction, in which females reproduce without males by cloning themselves, has been documented in multiple species ...

This time​ each year three natural processes genuinely stand out. The wildflower bloom dwindles as fewer species bear flowers ...

Medicinal plants establish a close relationship with the microorganisms in their native habitats. These interactions are ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The ...

OK, YOU FOLKS are lucky today. Finally, after all these months of harping on you to pinch and prune your plants, we will learn how to use some of those plant tips for asexual reproduction.

Monica Bond and Derek Lee’s “love and obsession” for giraffes started during a trip to Uganda in 2005. Since then, they said, ...

Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä and the Natural Resources Institute Finland have discovered that ash appears to be an excellent additive in the anaerobic digestion process in terms of ...

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