Edible flowers you can grow in your own garden

Many common garden flowers are safe to eat. Learn which ones to pick and how to harvest them for your next meal.

Hummingbirds and pineapples: Why this ancient relationship hits the evolutionary sweetspot

High above the rainforest floor, tiny ponds form in the leaves of plants perched on tree branches. Frogs breed in these ponds ...

Cacti spines, snake fangs, snail love darts – oh my! How function drives the evolution of nature’s puncture tools

The act of puncture – stabbing something with a sharp tool – is incredibly widespread in the natural world. Examples of ...
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

From desert frog to deep-sea molluscs, remarkable species at risk – IUCN Red List

Deep-sea mining threatens over half of molluscs reliant on hydrothermal vents, today’s update of The IUCN Red List of ...
Nature

Water Uptake and Transport in Vascular Plants

How does water move through plants to get to the top of tall trees? Here we describe the pathways and mechanisms driving water uptake and transport through plants, and causes of flow disruption. Water ...
Nature

Plant breeding articles from across Nature Portfolio

Analysis of the genetic architecture of globally collected oat accessions reveals transcontinental gene flow and divergent domestication, with nutritionally superior naked oats evolving from ...
Discover Wildlife

"They eat their hosts from the inside out, using saw-like teeth to chew their way through thick skin." 10 most brutal, savage, parasites on the planet

Lurking in the shadows of many ecosystems are animals whose main motivations are, quite literally, to hijack the bodies of ...