Plants

  1. Earth

    The oldest place on Earth

    Antarctica may seem like the dead continent, but it once bustled with life — a little of which still survives.

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  2. Plants

    Ancient flower blooms again

    Scientists have found the fruit of an ancient plant that had been frozen underground in Siberia — a region covering central and eastern Russia — for about 31,800 years. Using pieces of the fruit, the scientists grew plants in a lab. The new blooms have delicate white petals. They are also the oldest flowering plants that researchers have ever revived from a deep freeze.

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  3. Plants

    Carnivorous plants say ‘cheese’

    It took high-speed cameras to reveal how the bladderwort gets lunch.

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  4. Plants

    Supersizing pumpkins

    Engineers model extreme growth in fruits.

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  5. Plants

    Surprise Visitor

    Newly discovered cricket pollinates orchids in nighttime rendezvous.

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  6. Plants

    Flower family knows its roots

    Impatiens wildflowers seem to know who's sharing their soil.

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  7. Plants

    The man who rocked biology to its core

    Two hundred years later, Charles Darwin's ideas still live on.

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  8. Animals

    Hungry bug seeks hot meal

    A seed-loving insect finds food by sensing its temperature.

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  9. Animals

    A ‘book’ on every living thing

    The biggest encyclopedia ever, with an entry for every living species, is available now at a computer near you.

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  10. Plants

    Flytrap machine

    Inspired by the Venus flytrap, scientists have invented a material that might improve human lives.

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  11. Plants

    Seeds of the Future

    Around the world, scientists are putting seeds to sleep for up to thousands of years.

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  12. Plants

    The Book of Life

    Work has begun on a Web site called the Encyclopedia of Life, which aims to catalog every species on Earth.

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