A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators and the insects possess infrared ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

Cycads use infrared heat to guide beetle pollinators, revealing an ancient plant communication system that predates flowers.

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

The Trump administration is moving to dissolve the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, a leading hub for ...

A sound and light installation by an internationally acclaimed French artist will be the final celebration of the 200th ...

This week's cover of the international journal 'Science' features a species of beetle, the cycad weevil (Rhopalotria ...

The Tracks of Change exhibition series, presented by S&DR200, will soon reach its spectacular finale at Preston Park Museum ...

Known for his superlative Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, Ross Cobb has opened his first tasting room in downtown Healdsburg.

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...