In this week's roundup of science news, Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson talk about a newly discovered desert flower, tasting lemonade in virtual reality and prehistoric bone tools used by early humans.

Charlie Appleby is confident there is more to come from Desert Flower in Friday’s bet365 Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket. Appleby’s daughter of Night Of Thunder was thoroughly impressive in two ...

Spring officially starts on March 20, but warm weather and blooming flowers usually come early in Arizona. Here's how you ...

“The disappearance of this ornate, almost luminous flower went unnoticed as cattle trampled our desert grasslands into a struggling remnant of what they once were,” said Michael Robinson, a senior ...

LAS VEGAS— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition today asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to give Endangered Species Act protection to the Las Vegas bearpoppy, a desert flower ...

CARLSON: No (laughter). Yeah. The wooly devil is a new flower to science, found recently in the desert landscape of Big Bend National Park in Texas. It's called the wooly devil because it's ...

In this week's roundup of science news, Emily Kwong and Regina Barber talk about a newly discovered desert flower, tasting lemonade in virtual reality, and prehistoric bone tools used by early humans.

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