Skincare

In King Lear, Shakespeare imagines a samphire gatherer hanging halfway down a cliff. The scene gives a coastal plant a...

A miniature bunch of green grapes grows underwater. The beads belong to Caulerpa lentillifera, a green seaweed whose appearance makes...

Indian folk-medicine records include Nymphaea alba among plants traditionally associated with treating burns, as well as with antiseptic and astringent...

In Austria’s Zillertal valley, a farmer once told naturalist Karl von Moll that smoke from burning edelweiss could drive away...