When I was 26, I had a humbling moment that would change my life’s trajectory. I was writing my master’s thesis on the environmental impacts of the standard American diet when I suddenly realized that ...

West Michigan parents looking to get their little Einsteins into nature and science-related spring break camps have multiple options this spring. There’s activities for animal lovers and science ...

Mitchell G. Nye-Wood works in a lab group that receives funding from the Australian Research Council. We hear a lot about how humans eating meat is bad for the planet. That’s because making room for ...

Two botanical luminaries – Carl Linnaeus and David Fairchild – never met, but both were stunned by the beauty of palms, considering them the best the plant kingdom had to offer. Linnaeus (1707-1778) ...

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have cracked open the secrets of plant stem cells, mapping key genetic regulators in maize and Arabidopsis. By using single-cell RNA sequencing, they ...