A study from Kobe University has uncovered a surprising partnership between Japanese red elder plants and Heterhelus beetles.

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Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

Wild Ones of Rock River Valley, in partnership with Severson Dells Nature Center, hosted a workshop on Sunday to give area ...

A remarkable fossil from Scotland, dating back 407 million years, reveals a previously unknown fungus, Rugososporomyces ...

It's long been assumed that for an organism to learn, remember or draw conclusions, it needs a brain. But mounting evidence, including a recent Cognitive Science study, challenges that assumption, ...

More than 2.3 million ancient genetic switches discovered in plants reveal how key growth controls endured 300 million years ...

By feeding plants with energy and CO₂ from decomposing trash, the dome turns a landfill into an unlikely food source.

Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

As the US plans a long-duration mission to the Moon under the Artemis Programme, one of the biggest challenges that the scientists face is what astron.

To achieve this, Mueller transplants bacteria from one plant’s roots to a new generation’s seeds. With a gift of 50 seeds from Thomas Juenger, also a professor of integrative biology at UT, Mueller ...