A number of plants disperse their seeds in a rather artistic way: the seed capsules of the ice plant Delosperma nakurense, for instance, unfold lids over the seed compartments in the manner of a ...

Biologist Matthew Harrington and his colleagues at Germany's Max Planck Institute set out to explain the mysteries of the “ice plant,” Delosperma nakurense, a succulent that grows in arid and ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech and Clemson collaborate to produce robotic sensors that mimic the characteristics of plants for optimal environmental monitoring “When I started to venture into robotics a ...

image: Robert Minto, Ph.D., is an associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. view more INDIANAPOLIS -- Plants ...

Though it might be small solace to springtime sneezers, a new study shows grains of pollen to be biomechanical marvels. Their weblike outer shell folds like origami as grains leave a flower, sealing ...

We’ve seen expandable flower pots before, but nothing this elegant. “Growth” is a pot by London-based design house Studio Ayaskan that unfolds like origami to give the roots within plenty of space to ...

A Scottish designer has secured a distribution deal in Japan for the world’s first self-watering origami plant pot. The art of paper folding is believed to have become popular in the Asian country ...

Plants produce countless kinds of compounds, also known as natural products, that the plants manufacture using the enzymes predetermined by their genetic code. Many of these natural products are very ...