The field of plant abiotic stress physiology explores how environmental extremes impact the fundamental biological processes of agronomic crops. In recent ...

Have you ever seen a hibiscus flower? Although its petals have a range of colors, what makes the trumpet-shaped flower more ...

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

Deception and intrigue are not limited to people or even animals. Plants, too, have evolved ways to fool their pollinators, their enemies and even the organisms that disperse their seeds. Now an ...

In July 2025, flash flooding in Texas caused the death of at least 132 people (archived) as of this writing. Following this disaster, claims about Robert Plant, the former lead singer of rock band Led ...

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A few months ago, Sen. Ted Cruz announced that he had ...