You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly what happens every time a corpse flower blooms at a public garden. In fact, ...

Although we've already heard about plants that mimic the smell of rotten meat or feces in order to attract pollen-spreading scavengers, botanists have now discovered that a certain plant really ...

More flowers should mean healthier bees, right? Not always. Scientists studying wild bees in Israel have discovered that greater flower diversity can sometimes increase viral infections rather than ...

By combining high-resolution genomic data with AI, researchers are uncovering the regulatory logic plants use to sense and survive environmental stress.

Exactly two years after he last bloomed, the IU biology department’s six foot, seven inch corpse flower — “Wally” to his friends — opened up again in the Biology Building greenhouse on E Third St.

May flowers bring November showers for these intrepid biologists. A flower hunter was moved to tears after encountering a super-rare species of bloom in Sumatra, Indonesia, marking the culmination of ...

Season after season, year after year, springtime comes. The sun shines, the baby birds sing, and the flowers bloom. These are all experiences we associate with spring. But why? Why is it that flowers ...

The more time you spend around the devil’s tongue, the more its smell gets under your skin. It first greets you as a dull odor, somewhat akin to a wet dog or raw fish. But stick around long enough – ...