Unsplash Beneath every forest floor, every grassland, and every garden bed, there is a world that most of us have never seen.

Researchers at the Yale School of the Environment have developed a laser-based method to study how plants adjust their internal functions according to changing environmental stimuli such as ...

Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers one listener question about the natural world. This week, Jeannie from Burlington, Vt., asked us about wastewater treatment plants. She said she's ...

A new study finds that plants respond to injury by actively redirecting sugars to damaged tissues, helping fuel the ...

“You shouldn’t make decisions when you’re hungry.” Tell that to the cell that ate a bacterium 1.5 billion years ago and set in motion the evolution of all plants on Earth. In this episode of Crash ...

Researchers have discovered two proteins that work in tandem to control an important response to cell stress. Researchers at Michigan State University have discovered two proteins that work together ...

Plants that grow in water don't require soil and alongside being attractive, they also improve the indoor climate. They live in glass containers of water, with the fluid providing additional moisture ...

Under the microscope -- The underground railroad -- What's essential -- Transforming sunlight into sugar -- Why leaves can turn red anytime, anyplace -- How plants tell time -- Night shifts and other ...

Similar to the way DNA damage can contribute to human diseases such as cancer, it can also disrupt growth, development and ...

Salk Institute scientists identify YAF9B as a protein activated by DNA damage, acting like an emergency responder to ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...