Ancient plants called cycads say “come hither” in infrared. By Sofia Quaglia If a plant wants to reproduce, there are a number of tricks it can use to lure a pollinator insect. It can display gaudily ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they evolved flashy petals. Now we know how they may have done it: not with ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest form of pollination. Rhopalotria furfuracea beetles pollinate the cones of ...

An exhibition highlighting local arts and addressing food insecurity through creative projects is now open at CityArts in downtown Orlando. Art Pollination: Building Food Justice Through Creativity is ...

Dozens of Democrats to boycott Trump's State of the Union address Why no one is winning the Russia-Ukraine war after four years Earth’s disastrous 10th tipping point has been identified We tried 12 ...

Scenes from the City of Orlando’s Art Pollination project debut in downtown Orlando, Tuesday, Sept, 9, 2025. The project brings together a group of Central Florida muralists and artists —producing a ...

A bee-like robot currently under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is part of a new generation of bots inspired by creepy crawlies. The machine, which weighs less than a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. woman harvesting tomatoes off a plant into a basket - Kathrin Ziegler/Getty Images Put down the paintbrush and step away from the ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and ...

Agronomists and farmers are finding some pollination issues in specific genetics that were impacted by environmental stress during early, rapid growth. Pollination is always a critical point in corn ...

Douglas Hilton works for CSIRO. The work highlighted in this article received funding from The Hermon Slade Foundation, which supports high quality biological research by scientists in Australian ...