Tag: Botany
Climate change threatens spring wildflowers by speeding up the time when...
Richard B. Primack, Boston University; Benjamin R. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, and Tara K. Miller, Boston University
For short-lived...
Once the Callery pear tree was landscapers’ favorite – now states...
Ryan W. McEwan, University of Dayton
When people think of spring, they often picture flowers and trees blooming. And...
Redwood trees have two types of leaves, scientists find – a...
Alana Chin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Coast redwoods are amazing trees that scientists have studied for generations....
Why do plants grow straight?
Beronda L. Montgomery, Michigan State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all...
Plants thrive in a complex world by communicating, sharing resources and...
Beronda L. Montgomery, Michigan State University
As a species, humans are wired to collaborate. That’s why lockdowns and remote...
Figs show that nonnative species can invade ecosystems by forming unexpected...
Jared Bernard, University of Hawaii
While surveying the Hawaiian island of Kauai in search of invasive plants in 2017, botanist Kelsey Brock spotted something unusal:...
Tons of acorns? It must be a mast year
Emily Moran, University of California, Merced
If you have oak trees in your neighborhood, perhaps you’ve noticed that some years the ground is carpeted with...
Friend or food? Why Venus flytraps don’t eat their pollinators
Clyde Sorenson, North Carolina State University; Elsa Youngsteadt, North Carolina State University, and Rebecca Irwin, North Carolina State University
The Venus flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, lives...
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Grounded: what’s behind Boeing’s production shutdown of MAX aircraft
Michael Lueck, Auckland University of Technology
Boeing has announced it will halt production of the beleaguered B737-MAX series from January. Boeing’s announcement this week follows...
