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

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 ...

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

DNA analysis of remains found at medieval sites has identified closely related strains of leprosy-causing bacteria in the bones of humans and a red squirrel ...

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

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

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 ...

Strange bursts of radio waves called FRBs have long been mysterious, and one of the most famous sources of these flashes may have an unexpected planet ...

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

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

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 ...