Scientists have solved the 130-year mystery of Stigmatodactylus sikokianus, a fungus-consuming orchid with a unique ...

MIT researchers are developing robotic insects that could someday swarm out of mechanical hives to rapidly perform precise ...

Human impacts go beyond fragmentation of habitat to other modifications. We are interested in how anthropogenic impacts from farming to logging to cattle grazing affect bee communities and pollination ...

This diversity in pollination methods underscores the evolutionary adaptations that orchids have developed to ensure successful reproduction. Another area of research has focused on the chemical ...

Cross-pollination: The pollen grain lands on a different flower to the one it originated from. As plants cannot move like animals they must adopt a different method of transferring these pollen ...

More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been ...

130 years after a fungus-eating plant received its name, a researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name -- revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ensure ...

A more efficient artificial pollination method could enable future farmers to grow fruits and vegetables in multilevel warehouses, increasing yields while reducing agriculture’s environmental ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — With a more efficient method for artificial pollination, farmers in the future could grow fruits and vegetables inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of ...

It can even precisely track a trajectory that spells M-I-T. A more efficient artificial pollination method could enable future farmers to grow fruits and vegetables in multilevel warehouses ...

With a more efficient method for artificial pollination, farmers in the future could grow fruits and vegetables inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of agriculture's ...