The small garden now features thousands of roses, violets, cherry trees and vines. Experts think a perfumer may have once ...

Ancient grains are back—and for good reason. Here’s why millet, quinoa, and their nutrient-packed cousins are becoming vegan ...

Today's avocado industry, a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise, relies primarily on a single variety: the Hass avocado.

Wild-growing tomatoes are on the black-rock islands of the Galápagos are doing something peculiar. They’re shedding millions of years of evolution, reverting to a primitive genetic state that ...

Lavender, one of the most popular herbs in the world, has been highly valued and cultivated since ancient Greek times.

The event will feature interpretive exhibits highlighting plants that thrived in the region 3-4 million years ago during the ...

Adequate sleep is essential for physical and mental well-being, enabling the brain and body to undergo critical repair and ...

The study challenges the idea that the climate of northern Africa dried out around 3 million years ago, a time when the ...

Fossilised leaves discovered in Assam's Makum Coalfield reveal a surprising link between northeast India and the Western ...

A plant used by the ancient Greeks for medicine, food and even contraception, was one of the most sought-after goods in the ...

The footprints, whose discovery was announced in 2021, indicate that humans trod the landscape of North America thousands of ...

Inside that coprolite (a fossilized piece of dung) paleontologists have discovered the oldest physical evidence of ...