Eating mostly plant-based foods and fewer animal-based foods may be linked to better heart health and a lower risk of dying from a heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular disease according to new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Vegetarian and vegan diets provide greater reductions in body weight, fat mass and LDL cholesterol and improved ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers investigated the relationship between the risk of progression of prostate cancer and plant-based diet adherence after the diagnosis of the ...

Stomata – the tiny pores through which plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen and water – are closing up everywhere on earth as atmospheric CO2 levels rise. This change in plant structure ...

Patterns in when and how much plants grow have changed markedly over the past 30 years, scientists report March 2 in Nature Climate Change. Researchers looked at satellite data of vegetation on the ...

Scientists study the fractal patterns in individual trees to study forest structure and function. The intricate pattern of buds within buds, similar patterns at different scale, in Romanesco broccoli.

A NASA-funded study finds that changing rainfall patterns over much of the United States in the last century have allowed plants to grow more vigorously and absorb more carbon dioxide from the ...

The work is published today in Current Biology. For centuries, artists, biologists and mathematicians have been inspired by the recurring patterns of the plant world: the exquisite symmetry of flowers ...