botany

Researchers make a spinach leaf pump like a human heart

Just when you thought it was safe to eat a salad researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have shown that a decellularized spinach leaf can be turned into a vascular network that could help doct

Flower delivery startup The Bouqs raises $24 million to grow past its many competitors

There’s a field full of flower delivery services to choose from these days from the old school 1-800-flowers and FTD to startups popping up over the last few years like BloomThat, Farmgirl Flowe

European VCs are going to make flying cars a reality

Planting a flag in Europe for the development of the kind of "deep technology" companies that have long been the bread and butter of Silicon Valley, the European venture firm Atomico has invested 10 m

Deep learning software knows that a rose is a rose is a rosa rubiginosa

We can't all be botanists, unfortunately, but most of us do have smartphones, and that may be a start. A computer vision system built by Microsoft Research Asia can identify thousands of species of fl