No surprise here: When it comes to weather, most indoor and outdoor plants prefer the hot days of summer to the cold chill of winter. But sometimes things happen — like an unexpected (and ...

The carnivorous Venus flytrap plant can snap its clamshell leaves around an insect in less than a second. But how? Unlike animals, plants have no muscles or brains. And plants are not known for their ...

Most landscape plants react well – or at least survive – in our usual year-to-year early-spring weather. Problems crop up when weather extremes go outside the norm or when gardeners plant species that ...

Just a couple of weeks ago when Santa Claus opened the front door to the North Pole to start on his annual rounds, he unleashed a slug of unconscionably cold air, the likes of which we haven’t seen in ...

Thin polymer discs self-propel by repeated 'snapping' motions. (Credit: Yongjin Kim, UMass Amherst) A polymer-based gel made by researchers in the US and inspired by the Venus flytrap plant can snap, ...