How do foxglove plants make heart medicine?

Scientists have known foxglove plants make chemicals that can treat heart failure since the 1780s. New research digs into how the plant actually does it.

Charlotte Hsu-Buffalo • futurity
April 13, 2020 ~7 min

How these pretty weeds resist Roundup

The morning glory is both pretty and a noxious agricultural pest. New research looks into its genome to find out how it resists glyphosate, AKA Roundup.

Jim Erickson-Michigan • futurity
Feb. 7, 2020 ~3 min


Water lily genome holds clues to flower plant evolution

The genome sequence of a water lily sheds light on the early evolution of angiosperms, the group of all flowering plants.

Sam Sholtis-Penn State • futurity
Jan. 3, 2020 ~5 min

Beetle in amber pollinated flowers 99M years ago

A drop of fossilized amber from a mine in northern Myanmar contains not just a beetle but also 62 grains of pollen still clinging to its legs.

Kevin Fryling-Indiana • futurity
Nov. 12, 2019 ~4 min

Wild bee males and females like different flowers

"As we get a better sense of what makes flowers attractive to different kinds of bees, maybe we can get smarter about bee conservation."

Todd Bates-Rutgers • futurity
April 26, 2019 ~3 min

Bee spit and flower oil are inspiring new glues

The way bee spit and flower oil stick together in all sorts of conditions may pave the way for bioinspired adhesives.

Josh Brown-Georgia Tech • futurity
April 10, 2019 ~4 min

Columbine genome reveals one really weird chromosome

When researchers sequenced the genome of the columbine flower, one truly bizarre chromosome gave them a big surprise.

Harrison Tasoff-UC Santa Barbara • futurity
Oct. 29, 2018 ~7 min

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