The Signature of All Things (2013) is a historical novel about a fictional 19th-century botanist from Philadelphia called ...

In a heartwarming event, the City and County of Honolulu marked the beginning of Honolulu Pride Month by raising the pride ...

So much of who we are, our moods, our memories, the very life force that drives us, comes down to what we put on our plate.

Botanist Carl Linnaeus gave bananas the scientific name Musa from the Arabic word for banana, muz or musa. Or mauz. They ...

Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist and she joins us periodically to report on what she’s seeing in our woods and ...

Agnes Arber, who was the first woman botanist to be elected a Fellow of ... At this time, the University of Cambridge did not allow women to join practical classes in its laboratories and would ...

Early on in the project she spoke to a forensic botanist about visible changes in ... Her work does not name the women or give details about their murders but includes grid references as well ...

When different varieties of one plant species are crossed with each other, their hybrid offspring are often more robust and ...

As Appalachian ginseng turns from rural tradition to global commodity, the Forest Service is trying to keep foragers at bay.

In a dense Republic of Congo rainforest, scientists have mapped a network of strangely open clearings where wild beasts go to ...

“Women perfumed their hair with vanilla,” Haynes said ... Albius was only 12 when he taught his white botanist enslaver how to pollinate vanilla by hand because the primary pollinator of the plant, ...

In epic takes like “My Undesirable Friends” and playful biopics like “Pavements,” the vital art of the documentary is on full ...