Botany One

Liverworts are emerging as unexpected sources of cannabinoid-like compounds with promising anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects.

Carnivorous pitcher plants actively regulate their digestive fluid levels to maintain the perfect trap, not too full and not too empty, scientists discover.

Nothing like the smell of fresh coffee in the morning. According to science, we might want to thank the bees for it.

This week, drama, isolation, disappearance and more.

A pretty riverside invader does its worst damage after it dies, destabilising riverbanks when floods hit hardest.

Behind every plant label in a botanic garden lies a hidden data crisis, one that could determine which species survive the twenty-first century.

A theatre project turns foresters’ real words into a powerful exploration of how climate uncertainty shapes the forests—and decisions—of tomorrow.

Not much this week as we come back from holiday.

This week, the ants that dictate to lions, plant romance, colourful trees, and more...

Mother Nature has her trees in bloom to celebrate Spring in Argentina.

In the competitive world of plant-pollinator interaction, a little razzle-dazzle helps a flower be seen.

An invasive ant disrupts a partnership between trees and insects, reshaping the way lions hunt zebras in Africa’s savanna