Tanner Mitchell a.k.a. “Tanner the Planter” joins Wendy Snyder, filling in for Lisa Dent, to answer all your plant questions ...

Pity the poor fly that lands on a Venus flytrap. When the insect touches hair-like structures on this remarkable carnivorous plant, its trap snaps shut, dooming the victim to be digested over several ...

Pity the poor fly that lands on a Venus flytrap. When the insect touches hair-like structures on this remarkable carnivorous ...

A Venus flytrap closes around a finger in a safe experiment, showing how the plant’s trap works.

Experiments rule out osmotic water flow and identify rapid cell wall softening as the driving force in Dionaea muscipula ...

New research seems to bust a common hypothesis for how a Venus flytrap's trap begins to close, while supporting another.

Last chance: Venus and Jupiter appear almost touching — why astronomers are excited The Venus-Jupiter conjunction puts on a celestial free show, peaking on June 8 and 9, 2026. These two brightest ...

Venus passes 5° south of the star Pollux at noon EDT. You can view them after sunset in the west, as Venus and Jupiter are closing in for a conjunction. Tonight the planets are 1.7° apart, standing in ...

One of only two plants worldwide that actively trap animal prey, the flytrap is at home in a surprisingly small patch of U.S. soil. Lynda Richardson As I slogged through black swamp water, the mud ...

When President Xi Jinping met US leader Donald Trump in Beijing on Thursday, he posed a big question: Can China and the US avoid the “Thucydides Trap”? It’s a phrase that sounds academic, but it goes ...

Flying and downing drones are becoming part of many U.S. soldiers’ jobs, so over the last few weeks in Lithuania, infantry units worked to add drone warfare to their ground-combat expertise. “So what ...

The concept of a plant that "eats" animals provokes the darker regions of the imagination. In the 1980s musical comedy "Little Shop of Horrors," a giant Venus flytrap named Audrey II consumes human ...