From Jurassic Park to The Martian, botanist James Wong explores the major science fiction films that get botany spectacularly ...

A male Sumatran orangutan chewed the leaves of a plant used in Indonesian traditional medicine and placed them on a wound on ...

Migrating flies can carry pollen hundreds or thousands of kilometres, and this could help plants adapt to climate change ...

Plants are often celebrated for the parts that are easy to see – flower, leaves, fruit – but scientists are uncovering the ...

The inactivation of one copy of the X chromosome in female mammals may start to fail as they get older, which may be why ...

If all goes well, the Chang’e 6 probe will be the first ever to land on the far side of the moon to take samples and bring ...

The global bumblebee population has declined since the 1950s, sparking speculation on the causes – researchers have suggested ...

Climbers and workers at indoor climbing walls may be breathing in large doses of potentially toxic rubber additives, ...

An analysis of the 2021 German federal elections has found that for every 200,000 times a politician's social media adverts ...

Finnair has cancelled flights to Tartu in Estonia this month because of an ongoing GPS jamming attack – and there is evidence ...

Cell-like structures containing very simple proteins and even pores in the membrane around them have been created in lab experiments that aimed to mimic the conditions found in the crust of early ...

My colleagues call me a supervillain for trying to destroy the cosmos, but this kind of imaginative thinking isn't so far ...