If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need to crawl inside and die in order for the fruit to grow. But are there ...

The first-place winner of the 2025 Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition captures a self-pollinating flower. Jay McClellan via Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition Nikon has revealed ...

MELVILLE, N.Y., Sept. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Nikon Instruments Inc. today unveiled the winners of its 15th annual Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition, an integral component of the Nikon ...

Developed through hand-pollination and repeated backcrossing, the Scarlet Sunrise was bred to stabilize firmness, color, and flavor across generations of test plants. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning ...

Scenes from the City of Orlando’s Art Pollination project debut in downtown Orlando, Tuesday, Sept, 9, 2025. The project brings together a group of Central Florida muralists and artists —producing a ...

You might not have noticed all the new native plantings in Green Bay parks the last two summers but pollinators have, and that’s the whole point. Pale purple coneflower, swamp milkweed, rough blazing ...

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has launched a beekeeping program at Pondville Correctional Center, a minimum-security and pre-release state prison in Norfolk, according to a community ...

Students at MIT are designing and developing robots that weigh less than one gram, and could one day perform artificial pollination, inspections, and environmental monitoring. ‘Just Hang Up’: FBI ...

Nils Bernstein is a food, drink, and travel editor and writer based in Mexico City. He is the food editor for Wine Enthusiast and has written for such publications as Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Food & ...

If you are growing cucumber plants that are flowering but not producing any fruit, the issue may be pollination -- or a lack thereof. In most gardens, bees and other insects pollinate plants naturally ...

A bee-like robot currently under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is part of a new generation of bots inspired by creepy crawlies. The machine, which weighs less than a ...