Installation view of Mark Dion’s “David Fairchild’s Laboratory at the Kampong” (2016) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless indicated otherwise) MIAMI — Mango season here is smelly: the ...

Plants are such a ubiquitous aspect of life—its very foundation, really—that you may rarely think about their scientific research. Botany has the potential to bear fruit in so many fields that affect ...

Agnes Arber "spent a large proportion of her career working in a small laboratory in her own house rather than having a formal position and space", said Cambridge University A pioneering botanist who ...

As a child, University of Wisconsin student Kai Nakano Rasmussen had big dreams of becoming an astronaut one day. He now lives out his dreams, but in a very different way — by sending plants into ...