Towering structures must be able to bend and sway when subjected to the forces of wind and ground movement, or they will topple, whether it's a building, a geological formation, tree—or even a cactus.

It’s the turn of the 19th century and botany is the only socially acceptable science for women to pursue. After all, both women and plants are “delicate,” so naturally botany is “fashionable.” At ...

The solutions to feeding the world are certainly multi-faceted, requiring knowledge from a diversity of fields and practices to successfully raise food production and maintain ecosystem security. Thus ...

Dominion, demonstration, and domination: religious doctrine, territorial politics, and French plant collection / Chandra Mukerji -- Walnuts at Hudson Bay, coral reefs in Gotland: the colonialism of ...

The teeming plant world could become a virtual mystery in the coming decades as college students increasingly shy away from studying botany and universities across the U.S. shutter their long-standing ...

Suburban London is filled with greenery and lush growth; record crop harvests appear possible across Europe, and nothing too scary has been reported on the UK plant health risk register for some time ...

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Some may still see it as a Cinderella science, but botany flowers magnificently in Plants: Roots to riches and the accompanying 25-part BBC Radio 4 series WHAT underpins the internet, the humble tyre ...

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