According to recent studies, plants "cry" when under stress, and some animals can hear these audible signals. Here's the science behind this phenomenon.

Aboriginal Australians have used native plants as bush medicine for tens of thousands of years. On Larrakia land, medical students are learning how nature can heal.

For the Bachman’s sparrow, whether a song is passed to the next generation could depend, in part, on the wind and trees. By K. R. Callaway In the flatwoods of South Florida, tiny brown birds emerge ...

Netflix announced today at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival that Fool Night — Kasumi Yasuda's acclaimed seinen manga about a dystopian future where dying humans are surgically ...

Giant pandas, those beloved black and white bears native to China’s bamboo forests, are known for their distinctive appearance and bamboo diet. While many animals communicate primarily through ...

Researchers are decoding how signals move between body and brain, with implications for how we understand and treat conditions from obesity to anxiety.

First of all, I would like to share that I clearly opened up a can of worms when selecting a topic for this week’s column. Even though I have meditated for years, I still have a little monkey in my ...

A Warning to Climate Scientists: Don’t Miss the Forest for the Trees Suzanne Simard’s new book urges Western science to take a lesson from the more holistic Indigenous approach to forest preservation.

Agaves are in bloom all over Austin. At one Southeast Austin office park, I observed rows of agaves planted efficiently along the sidewalks of blooming at the same time. Pale, yellow-green stalks rose ...

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