New findings are pushing researchers to explore coffee’s potential influence on an enzyme central to how the body converts carbohydrates into blood sugar.

A new species of succulent with mutant flowers, hidden for decades and key to the island's biodiversity, has been discovered ...

Without systematic documentation, traditional plants’ uses could be lost or excluded from mainstream medical discourse.

Today’s episode of “Matt About Town” explores the Smithsonian Gardens Botany Research Greenhouse, filled with rare plants ...

Whatever challenges life throws, mothers often know best as they guide offspring through the risky stages of early ...

The Nature of Movement brings art, motion, and nature together at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, February 8–May 31, 2026.

Scientists are investigating the reasons some plants still wear last season’s tattered clothes.

The untold story behind Mike and Heather Trask's fossil discovery and 'the incredible importance of curiosity.' ...

In most forests, a visitor’s eye is trained on what can be reached. The trunk can be measured. The leaves can be plucked. A specimen can be pressed, labeled, and filed away. Yet the largest share of ...

You walk through a field of wheat, ryegrass, or clover and notice the sway of stems and leaves. What you cannot see is where most of the action happens. Beneath the soil surface, roots spread, compete ...

Scientists from UCT’s Department of Biological Sciences have been involved in an international research project which shows a parasitic sea snail that represents an entirely new genus.

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth's surface almost 3000 million years ago.