Ashley started at The Scientist in 2018. Before joining the staff, she worked as a freelance editor and writer, a writer at the Simons Foundation, and a web producer at Science News, among other ...

and finally move through a waxy cuticle. Scientists long thought that diffusion drove the release of the molecules, but in 2015, computer simulations revealed that VOCs can’t diffuse out of flower ...

This discovery challenges long-held assumptions about how plants function. While scientists believed that leaf pores were the primary source of water loss, it appears that the cuticle, a waxy layer, ...