A number of plants disperse their seeds in a rather artistic way: the seed capsules of the ice plant Delosperma nakurense, for instance, unfold lids over the seed compartments in the manner of a ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech and Clemson collaborate to produce robotic sensors that mimic the characteristics of plants for optimal environmental monitoring “When I started to venture into robotics a ...

Begum and Bike Ayaskan are the twins behind the ingenious plant pot which grows with its inhabitant. The duo realised how the world of nature is not as static as the the pots and gardens we try to ...

Plants produce countless kinds of compounds, also known as natural products, that the plants manufacture using the enzymes predetermined by their genetic code. Many of these natural products are very ...

We’ve seen expandable flower pots before, but nothing this elegant. “Growth” is a pot by London-based design house Studio Ayaskan that unfolds like origami to give the roots within plenty of space to ...