When you picture a flower and a pollinator, the odds are you’re imagining a colorful, perfumed flower, and a honeybee.

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Scientists say wild tomato plants on the archipelago's western islands are experiencing "reverse evolution" and reverting ...

The key change is an ancient defense system. Basically, these tomatoes are manufacturing a version of an alkaloid whose ...

Scientists debate whether true reverse evolution is possible, but this species of tomatoes on the western Galápagos Islands ...

The lush, tropical regions of Central and South America have long dazzled scientists with their plant diversity. These ...

Scientists at MIT have turbocharged one of nature’s most sluggish but essential enzymes—rubisco—by applying a cutting-edge ...

New research from Northern Arizona University points to the idea that, under some conditions, plants can "curate" their ...

The evolution of energy markets from vertically integrated utilities to open access competitive markets has created a power ...

Species can sometimes "re-acquire features similar to those of their ancestors," said the statement, but "doing so through ...

New research uncovers reversal of evolution in island plants. On the younger, volcanic islands of the Galápagos, wild tomato ...