The new book Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging unpacks how we think about the migrations of both plants and humans, as well as how those ideas shape our perceptions of what we call ...

A citizen science study has found participants’ mental wellbeing is positively affected, in a variety of ways.

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Lexi Krupp, was originally published by Vermont ...

The two of us can often be found in a patch of scrubby bushland, phone in hand, slowly scanning for plants. Or crouched ...

Researchers bio-engineered a tobacco plant to produce five key psychedelic compounds for therapeutic use.

It takes a lot of energy to perceive the world, and evolution favors energy efficiency. As a result, the human brain does a terrific job of learning to filter things out. We lose the details of our ...

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Plants appear simple on the surface. They sit quietly in soil, growing slowly while responding to light and water. Yet, there ...