Here’s how to cook with lemongrass, a treasured ingredient that delivers a subtle yet complex flavor to everything from Thai ...

A team led by the University of Oxford has solved a mystery that has intrigued scientists for centuries: how does the ...

Blink and you might miss how quickly this squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) ejects its seeds. The mechanics behind ...

Scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered the secrets behind one of nature’s quirkiest plants - the ...

A team led by the University of Oxford has solved a mystery that has intrigued scientists for centuries: how does the ...

The hairy, ground-hugging vines of the squirting cucumber Ecballium elaterium might seem like an ordinary weedy plant. But ...

To reveal the mechanism, the team employed the help of a high-speed camera that could capture up to 8,600 frames per second, ...

The quirky plant, a relative of the edible cucumber, ejects its seeds at a whopping 44mph - even faster than the human ...

Limiting the consumption of added sugars and all of their nutritionally empty calories clearly has health benefits, but ...

The squirting cucumber Ecballium—not to be confused with the exploding cucumber Cyclanthera—is not a showy plant. It meanders ...

The small industrious wood ant can do more than just build high nests in spruce forests. A newly published article in the ...