Spiritual flowers are ancient symbols used to manage moods and promote well-being. Key examples include lotus for focus, jasmine for love, and lavender for calm. Each flower has unique properties ...

Perfumes had captivated the ancient Greeks and through many sources, we can still venture through the world of perfumes in ancient Greece.

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Humans have been making music for millennia. By the third millennium bc, sculptures and early written records suggest that ...

Native bluebells bloom in beautiful, scented swathes in April and May. Hazel Sillver looks at how to naturalise them in ...

Exploring the surprisingly rich archaeological record of berries, melons…and more ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North ...

Here, the authors perform a pan-genome-based genome-wide meta-analysis of six independent GWAS experiments in rice, demonstrating the potential of this approach to increase understanding of the ...

It looked healthy, almost ornamental. Only a few months later, that seemingly innocent plant had exploded across three-quarters of the water's surface, forming an impenetrable mat. Water hyacinth ...

And this is where the growing process begins. The new shoots and leaves are green because of the chemicals within the plant. Those chemicals work with sunlight to produce the food that the plant ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Containers are stacked at the Port of Los Angeles Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian ...