Scientists Uncover New Plant Species Hidden in Plain Sight for More Than 100 Years
Phebalium banyabba. Credit: Paul Sheringham A plant misidentified for more than a century has been named as a…
Scientists Just Found Something Weird Inside Moss
Mosses are famous for surviving conditions that would kill most plants, but new research suggests they may not…
Meet The Plant That Learned How To ‘Count’ — A Biologist Explains
This tiny weed performs real arithmetic in the dark. Here’s how it uses its calculations not only to…
Researchers Have Cracked the Sweet Potato’s Unusually Complex DNA
Scientists have cracked the sweetpotato’s unusually complex DNA, uncovering its surprising ancestry and unlocking powerful tools to strengthen…
Branching out: Tomato genes point to new medicines
The Takeaway CSHL’s Lippman and McCandlish labs have discovered how interactions between cryptic genetic mutations can increase or…