Imagine cells navigating through a complex maze, guided by chemical signals and the physical landscape of their environment.

Not quite red, not quite brown, burnt sienna and rust sit in that perfect in-between space where earthiness meets elegance.

The little pinprick spots on apples, pears, mangos, avocados, and potatoes are called lenticels (LEN-tih-sells), and they’re very important. Plants need a constant stream of fresh air, just like ...

Stanford Medicine researchers discover mechanisms of sex-linked genetic mutation giving rise to ginger felines.

In the tangled darkness of Southeast Asian mangrove forests, one crab species appears to have evolved a structure that ...

To those who know him, Maurice Hetherington is without doubt one of the bush's colourful characters, who, in his own words, loves an audience.

Among the many hallmarks of the slice of literature known as diaspora writing, perhaps none is more frequently revisited than the significance of fruit to a child of immigrants. Taciturn parents ...

In a modern supermarket, shiny globes of oranges are stacked in pyramids. They appear identical and in their seeming perfection, unremarkable, a mundane fruit to slice into wedges and pack in a ...

In her new hybrid memoir, Katie Goh unravels the multitudes citrus fruit contains, in lockstep with mythologies of colonialism, inheritance and... In a modern supermarket, shiny globes of oranges ...