A 99-million-year-old beetle preserved in amber alongside grains of pollen likely pollinated prehistoric plants.

Although more evidence is needed to pin down a cause, researchers suspect that climate change is to blame.

Austrian-American botanist Joseph Rock collected thousands of plant samples in his 27 years in the Middle Kingdom, leaving after the Communist Party’s takeover.

Blast off into orbit, where researchers on the International Space Station are growing plants in systems that may one day sustain astronauts travelling far across the solar system and beyond.

A new species of ant discovered in Borneo fends off invaders with a uniquely suicidal strategy.

There are countless ways for scientists to say, “I love you.” Naming a slime-mold beetle after your wife (and another after your ex-wife) is, apparently, one of them.  

The Purdue University researcher is one of the first to examine the molecular processes that underlie infection by soil microbes.

Plants are locked in an ancient arms race with hostile viruses, but genome editing is giving crops the upper hand.

Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.

Viruses are incapable of reproducing without the help of a host, whose cells copy their genetic material and fabricate the building blocks of new virus particles.