We’ve seen expandable flower pots before, but nothing this elegant. “Growth” is a pot by London-based design house Studio Ayaskan that unfolds like origami to give the roots within plenty of space to ...

Biologist Matthew Harrington and his colleagues at Germany's Max Planck Institute set out to explain the mysteries of the “ice plant,” Delosperma nakurense, a succulent that grows in arid and ...

Begum and Bike Ayaskan are the twins behind the ingenious plant pot which grows with its inhabitant. The duo realised how the world of nature is not as static as the the pots and gardens we try to ...

A number of plants disperse their seeds in a rather artistic way: the seed capsules of the ice plant Delosperma nakurense, for instance, unfold lids over the seed compartments in the manner of a ...

Though it might be small solace to springtime sneezers, a new study shows grains of pollen to be biomechanical marvels. Their weblike outer shell folds like origami as grains leave a flower, sealing ...

A Scottish designer has secured a distribution deal in Japan for the world’s first self-watering origami plant pot. The art of paper folding is believed to have become popular in the Asian country ...

A Scottish inventor's world-first "self-watering" origami plant pot is set to be distributed across Japan in a major money deal. The range of products created by Scottish start-up POTR is led by ...

Plants produce countless kinds of compounds, also known as natural products, that the plants manufacture using the enzymes predetermined by their genetic code. Many of these natural products are very ...

image: Robert Minto, Ph.D., is an associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. view more INDIANAPOLIS -- Plants ...