Water passes through sandy soil like a sieve—any plants growing in sandy soil must be drought-tolerant, because water passes ...

In a nutshell A common desert plant called Artemisia herba-alba contains compounds that can effectively kill colorectal cancer cells in laboratory tests while appearing to leave healthy cells unharmed ...

Our flower gardens look pretty grey right now, but I’m referring to the interesting and distinctive grey plants that grow in the summer garden. We don’t usually think of grey as an ...

For example, pharmaceutical chemist, Youyou Tu, discovered artemisinin, an antimalarial extract from the plant Artemisia after being inspired by an entry in the sixteenth century tome, Compendium ...

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653) is the most celebrated female painter of the 17th century, considered a key figure within the Italian Baroque period.