Ackroyd & Harvey, “Satanic Formula (after Senanayake)” (2017, all photos courtesy Spencer Museum of Art, the University of Kansas) In the 2018 film Annihilation, an alien intelligence transforms a ...

In 1997, at age 19, Toby Kiers talked her way into the Smithsonian's renowned tropical research institute on Barro Colorado, an island in the middle of the Panama Canal. The scientists studied the ...

A world-first study reveals an acoustic interaction between plants and insects. In the study, the team focused on female moths and found that they make a critical decision—where to lay their ...

Scientists have discovered that a molecule known for defending animal immune systems called itaconate also plays a powerful role in plants. Researchers showed that itaconate not only exists in plant ...