A new study suggests that plants deceive their neighbors using fungi, faking warning signals in order to compete.

The time-honored tradition of humans looking to the natural world can help us survive difficult times.

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat and break down plastic, and how animals' sense of smell varies by altitude.

Squamellaria plants grow special structures to host the ants they symbiotically rely on for nutrients. Distinct compartments ...

While plants often have mutually beneficial relationships with insects, a tuber in Fiji grows separate compartments for ...

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

In fantasy worlds, trees like the Lord of the Rings’ Ents are agile and mobile. In the real world, they’re slow.

Perhaps you have held in your mind that someday, you'd get a little more connected to the natural world. You would finally ...

A new study argues that religion, politics and war affect how animals and plants in cities evolve, and the confluence of ...

Plant and animal cells are both extremely important to the survival of millions of species and without them, life couldn’t ...

But how do air purifiers vs. plants measure up? Plants naturally absorb gases and release oxygen, and they've been doing this ...