The American Heart Association wants you to get more of your protein from plant sources. These foods can help you hit your ...

Poor diet quality is strongly associated with elevated cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality risk. This American Heart Association scientific statement for food-based cardiovascular health ...

Plants need water, light, and air to thrive. But when they transport water from the soil up to their leaves, they defy ...

Whether a plant can draw water from the soil depends on the soil's physical properties, not the plant itself. This explains ...

Plants need water, light and air to thrive. But when they transport water from the soil up to their leaves, they defy gravity ...

Agarikon is one of two endangered species of fungi in the United States. So rare is the species that scientists have placed ...

For plants to survive on land, they need a mechanism to absorb water and nutrients from their surroundings. While many land plants have evolved structures such as roots and vascular tissue to fill ...

Around 410 million years ago terrestrial life was relatively simple. There were no forests or prairies—land was largely dominated by slimy microbial mats. The types of plants that would eventually ...

So you lost plants this year to May’s slogfest and then to summer’s dry heat? The full toll might not even be apparent until next spring when dead/damaged plants try to shift back into growth mode. It ...

For the first time, every plant species in the state of Nevada can be found in a single list. Published last month, “Nevada Vascular Plants: An Annotated Checklist of the State’s Botanical Diversity” ...

Share on Pinterest New research reveals vascular benefits from foods rich in flavanols, particularly in sedentary individuals. Svanberggrath/Stocksy Modern lifestyles mean that people spend an ...

Q. Most examples of unusual wildlife are animals. Which plants do you think are notable, or at least interesting, in some way? A. I have received this question before, the first time being from Joab ...