The team sequenced the plant’s DNA and compared it with other specimens in the California Academy of Sciences’ herbarium. The ...

A research team led by Prof. Huang Zhenying from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered a remarkable survival strategy—a unique seed dormancy cycling mechanism ...

Researchers with the California Academy of Sciences have discovered a new species of sunflower endemic to the harsh, rocky ...

Enjoy spring by spotting songbirds or by exploring the Madison area's rich Indigenous history on a self-guided walking tour.

The death of a houseplant is a painful experience — there is no denying it. I’ve carried the blame of multiple houseplants in ...

A volunteer at Texas’ Big Bend National Park spotted bright red blooms after rain in a remote stretch of desert, leading to ...

For the first time in nearly 50 years, a brand new genus and species of plant has been discovered in a U.S. national park. Now dubbed the wooly devil ( Ovicula biradiata) for its fuzzy white foliage ...

State officials said a bill to remove regulations on water pollution "applies a machete to an issue that needs a scalpel, at a cost to Kentuckians." ...

First-time director Jing Yi sets his feature in the northern province of Xinjiang, in a remote community just across the border from Kazakhstan.

Jimmy Page was already a musical genius by the end of Led Zeppelin, but he knew that he could make some improvements with a ...

“Ephemeral streams are very protective of flooding,” said Lesley Sneed, a senior scientist with the Kentucky Resources ...