Children have long known that if you hold a little buttercup flower under your chin on a sunny day, the underside of your chin will be bathed in a yellow light. Now, by examining the petals of one ...

One of the most remarkable people I have met along this journey of life is the late Jesuit Fr. John Haughey. His keen mind was matched by his amusing sense of humor. As senior fellows at Woodstock ...

Driving around the region right now, it is easy to find lots of beautiful yellow flowers blooming in fields and pastures. While these flowers look beautiful, they represent an infestation that has ...

Buttercup flowers are known for their intense, shiny yellow colour. For over a century, biologists have sought to understand why the buttercup stands out. University of Groningen scientists have now ...

Scientists have found that the distinctive glossiness of the buttercup flower, which children like to shine under the chin to test whether their friends like butter, is related to its unique ...

Writing about spring flowers again this week may seem excessive, but the bright yellow flowers of the buttercups and their relatives are so outstanding I can’t resist. I remember holding the shiny, ...

I have a love-hate relationship with buttercups. In wet, shady parts of the garden, I fight an endless battle with Ranunculus repens, aptly named after Rana the frog, our friend from cool and damp ...

Like old friends, we greet each other, the buttercups and I. We became acquainted through my pursuit of owls. Looking for one I found the other. Since the mid 1970s, I have been going afield in March ...

Israeli girls enjoy the beauty of Spring in a buttercup flowers field near northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona. A girl has fun in a buttercup flowers field near northern Israeli city of Kiryat ...

Children have long known that if you hold a little buttercup flower under your chin on a sunny day, the underside of your chin will be bathed in a yellow light. Now, by examining the petals of one ...