Introducing cucumber plants to your garden is an ideal way to begin growing your own food. This nutrient-dense vegetable is great to have on hand to add to salads and snack on throughout the day.

Your leftover cucumber peels can be good for the kitchen compost—and for indoor plants. Even when you choose low-maintenance houseplants, pests can still find a way inside and take hold.

The dwarf planet Ceres hosts a frozen ocean that is almost pure water ice at its surface and becomes ‘dirtier’ with depth, modelling suggests 1. The work reconciles conflicting evidence ...

Plants are able to reproduce in two different ways - sexual reproduction and asexual reproducion. Sexual reproduction involves pollen from one flower fertilising the egg of another to produce a ...

So if you lack outdoor space because you live in an apartment or don't have enough usable yard area, you can still get your dream garden indoors. You can get started with your own indoor garden ...

The brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, or the Dog Star, greatly outshines its white dwarf companion, Sirius B. At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star to ...

It is the chloroplasts that contain the green pigment chlorophyll which absorbs light. The plant uses this glucose to grow as well as make other useful substances, such as cellulose found in the ...

The red dwarf honeybee, Apis florea, is native to parts of Asia but was discovered in Malta, the first sighting of its kind on European soil. Researchers say this unexpected arrival is concerning ...

Long noncoding RNA from Betula platyphylla, BplncSIR1, confers salt tolerance by regulating BpNAC2 to mediate reactive oxygen species scavenging and stomatal movement. Melatonin-mediated CcARP1 ...

Due to return for Untitled three-part special Series III, Episode 1 repeated Thursday 3rd October at 10pm on BBC2 Streaming rank this week: 168 The crew of the mining space ship Red Dwarf are wiped ...