The discovery of exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b reveals how unusual other worlds can be. This exoplanet takes just 7.8 hours to ...

New research shows cycads warm cones to attract beetles that sense infrared radiation, revealing one of Earth’s oldest ...

A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest form of pollination. Rhopalotria furfuracea beetles pollinate the cones of ...

Blazing colors and enticing scents may be showy, but they're just one part of the toolkit plants use to lure in pollinators. Some plants produce heat, and a new study reveals for the first time that ...

Some of the earliest plants attracted pollinators by producing heat that made these plants glow with infrared light, according to a new set of experiments. The work, published in the journal Science, ...

Ancient plants called cycads say “come hither” in infrared. By Sofia Quaglia If a plant wants to reproduce, there are a number of tricks it can use to lure a pollinator insect. It can display gaudily ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators and the insects possess infrared ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they evolved flashy petals. Now we know how they may have done it: not with ...

Around 200 million years ago, long before flowers existed and back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, some of the first plants used heat to attract their pollinators, according to a new study. The ...