The herb can help protect basil from common pests like aphids, thanks to its strong smell which acts as a natural repellent.

It might or might not be the smell of aliens, but dimethyl sulfide — and its funky odor — definitely gets around ...

An action group says building a biogas plant fuelled by chicken droppings near their homes would "kill the village". The ...

A US-based biotech company has successfully sequenced the genetic codes of preserved plants, some of which date back more ...

Many plants smell "good" — to humans that is — but some go several steps in the other direction, presenting themselves to the ...

Fragrant climbing plants like jasmine, clematis, sausage vine, and passionflower vine will fill your garden with sweet, ...

The plant can take up to seven years to bloom the first time and won't bloom again for another two to three years. Less than ...

You've heard of Pink Floyd, but what about "Stink Floyd"? Well, the unique and smelly corpse plant is set to bloom at Reiman Gardens in Ames in mid-May. Here's what to know about the plant and how you ...

Yet new research indicates that, actually, many plants have everything they need to actively stink it up solo. Flowers across at least three stinky families share a similarly evolved genetic ...

Some plants stink of rotting meat or dung, which helps them attract flies for pollination. How plants make the carrion stench, which is usually produced by bacteria feasting on decaying corpses ...

With a nickname like ‘skunk cabbage’, the infamously stinky flowers of Symplocarpus renifolius are unlikely to grace a bridal bouquet. But for the beetles and flies that pollinate the plant ...

IT’S A STINKY SMELL THAT’S LOOMING OVER PORTIONS OF EPHRATA. IT SEEMS LIKE IT’S GETTING A LITTLE WORSE. THE BOROUGH SAYS THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT ON SOUTH READING ROAD IS TO BLAME.