Cucumber peel color can decide whether a fruit looks fresh, desirable, and worth buying. In many markets, especially in northern China, darker green cucumbers are preferred over paler ones.

For decades, Jon Zehr was haunted by an organism he knew was here — but couldn’t see. It all started in the ‘90s on a ...

Taxonomy is important in that it allows us to know what is out there before it goes extinct. As part of the European ...

George Tyler is a columnist for the Essex Reporter. A resident of Essex Junction, Tyler is a former journalist, village ...

Plants do not wait hours to respond to intense sunlight—they react within minutes. Researchers at Bielefeld University and ...

Minions & Monsters director Pierre Coffin, who also voices the Minions, answers how they reproduce, if they can die, and what ...

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have found how plant cells respond to stress. If their energy supply is disrupted by heat, drought or saline soils, chloroplasts—the cells' ...

Lynn Margulis's theory on symbiosis was rejected by fifteen journals before it rewrote how we understand life itself.

If your business needs cash but you don't have the time (or qualifications) to apply for a traditional loan, you might consider taking your case to the people. Crowdfunding lets you bypass some of the ...

Debates over the presence of microplastics in the human body highlight the challenge of studying something simultaneously ...

The nucleolus is a liquid-like cellular organelle where protein factories called ribosomes are assembled. Researchers knew of ...