A decorative ring made from carved stone is embedded in the wall of a ballcourt in the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza in present day Mexico. The research was a collaboration of Mexico's National ...

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 ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

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

Some of the earliest plants attracted pollinators by producing heat that made these plants glow with infrared light, according to a new set of experiments. The work, published in the journal Science, ...

Each night at sunset, a handful of plants "fall asleep." Species as diverse as legumes and daisies curl up their leaves and petals for the evening and do not unfurl until morning. Now, a new study ...

New research shows potatoes evolved from tomatoes through ancient plant mixing that created underground tubers.