BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — As spring approaches, flowers are beginning to bloom across the hillsides of the Golden Empire. This week’s segment focuses on how flowers soak up water, transforming them ...

Nature is brimming with color in almost every season. While the majority of colors are matte, some are shiny. Evolutionary biologist Casper van der Kooi wondered why shiny colors are so rare. He ...

The city of St. Paul is still looking for up to $10 million to complete a new downtown park that would fulfill a promise made to the site’s former owners. In the meantime, University of St. Thomas ...

Pollination is the process where pollen is transferred from one flower to another in order to allow fertilization, this is spread by wind, insects, or other animals. If pollination is not able to ...

Cool season crops are trending again in the world of gardening! As commercial flower grower and podcaster Lisa Mason Ziegler shares, cool season crops are not a new concept. It’s how our grandparents ...

Picture a big, round, fuzzy bumblebee buzzing around a flower garden, collecting nectar and pollen. A bumblebee visits a flower. KQED Deep Look on Giphy As it approaches the next flower, the bee ...

To make the discovery, researchers put hawkmoths in front of robotic flowers in low light. The moths slowed their visual system down to collect more light over long periods of time, the researchers ...

Microbes growing on flowers have adverse effects on their fruit yields. This is why plants are quick to shed their flowers, reveals a new study involving both field experiments and plant microbiome ...

I gave him a reassuring smile, a pat on the arm and told him about my flower experiment. After listening a few minutes, he relaxed and turned away; his marital hearing filter kicked in, and the sound ...