ANY biologically aware parent who has started talking about the birds and the bees will have realised halfway through that what they are really discussing is flowers. Bees carry pollen grains from one ...

Origins of life The sexual act where two creatures physically join together to create new life first began 385 million years ago, according to a new fossil study. The extinct Devonian-age armoured ...

MR. THOMAS MEEHAN, one of the most acute and thoughtful of American botanists, has several times during he present year brought before the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences the subject of the ...

Researchers have identified a novel mechanism through which a protein in barley supports female fertility and could help safeguard yield security in the future. A new scientific paper from Teagasc has ...

Rising carbon dioxide levels have been boosting plant growth, but this “fertilisation effect” has been declining faster than predicted by computer models, according to an analysis of satellite records ...