In this week's roundup of science news, Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson talk about a newly discovered desert flower, tasting lemonade in virtual reality and prehistoric bone tools used by early humans.

A grisly fate may have been in store for a fly larva concealed in the bloom. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A tiny flower that ...

HOUSTON — You may want to pack some nose plugs if you're visiting the Houston Museum of Natural Science this weekend. That’s because the museum is warning that their corpse flower nicknamed ‘Meg’ is ...

HOUSTON — Roses are red and violets are blue, but at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, a corpse flower named "Meg" is expected, to smell, too. “I’ve never seen a flower like that," Amia Adams ...

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A new sunflower family tree used skimmed genomes to increase the number of species sampled, revealing that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, ...

Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower. Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the ...

After days of coyly tempting staff and visitors with the occasional pungent whiff of rotting flesh, Trudy the corpse flower finally blossomed on Saturday night at the UC Botanical Garden. Visitors ...

Science City is returning to the Tucson Festival of Books to show the public that what our elementary teachers told us is true: we are all scientists. For nine years Science City, sponsored by the ...

The place smells like death, but that didn't keep crowds away from the UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley, California, this weekend. More than 2,300 visitors queued up on Saturday (July 25) to meet Trudy ...

In some deserts of the world, a series of heavy rains can trigger many species of plant to flower at the same time. Beneath Death Valley lies a massive seed bank of desert wildflowers and when heavy ...

Draw a large flower on your paper. Make sure it has a nice large center and lots of petals, like a daisy or a sunflower. Don't make your petals too long, we're going to fold the petals inward. Color ...