PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's westward trek mapped a route to the Pacific in the early 1800s, and the "Botany of Nations" explores the plants they collected along the way ...

The Academy of Natural Sciences and the Mütter Museum have exhibitions about the role of plants in nation building. ''Botany of Nations,'' at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, ...

Children must be taught more about the importance of plants if education about climate change and sustainability is to be effective, experts have warned. Children must be taught more about the ...

While humans remember phenomena that manifest in light, plants retain memories of light itself. —from philosopher Michael Marder’s book *Plant-Thinking* Though I am a plant enthusiast, I am not an ...

Plants have got you surrounded. They’re in your toothpaste, your bedsheets, and your regular Taco Bell order. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll find out what botanists study and how ...

During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...

The carefully taped and pressed plants stored in bespoke cabinets in the Academy of Natural Sciences lost their color long ago, but that's understandable. They were plucked from the ground over 200 ...