Reading oysters for seventeenth-century Jamestown history

Why do mosquitoes bite some people more than others? How you smell to a mosquito affects how much you're bit.

Finding anti-cancer agents inside tobacco may seem like a pretty strange coincidence, but it’s not unheard of to find help in harmful places.

Digging in Queensland, Australia, scientists recently discovered the fossilized remains of a small crustacean known as a seed ...

Check out this Special Mushroom Issue of Economic Botany to look up some pictures of edible mushrooms in the wild before you go picking.