Most spring bulbs last only a few years. Extend their life by digging them up in summer and storing them for replanting in ...

Jenni This is gripeweed or chamberbitter (Phyllanthus urinaria), a common summer annual weed. You may not ever totally get ...

Most gardeners think spring is where the real work happens. Dig, plant, water, repeat. But a lot of what determines whether ...

Plants need nitrogen to grow. Many legumes meet this need through a symbiotic relationship: They harbor bacteria that fix atmospheric nitrogen and make it available to the plant. Until now, it was ...

Discover ways to make your yard a safe haven for fireflies this summer season.

Minions & Monsters director Pierre Coffin, who also voices the Minions, answers how they reproduce, if they can die, and what ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

In marine environments, sponges tend to eat other organisms to get their nutrients. But a study published in Functional ...

It’s amazing to me that an array of important pollinators and other invertebrates found their way to my yard because of my ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...

Mary-Dell Chilton, Ph.D., an American pioneer in plant sciences known as the “Queen of the Agrobacterium,” died on June 24, ...