Kew Science: Read & watch

Deforested land with smoke and a small digger with a small area of green forest

28 September 2021

Kew Science launches new Science Strategy 2021 – 2025

Kew Science News

7 September 2021

The secret desert fog oases

Justin F Moat, Oliver Whaley

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta holding the Kew International Medal

2 September 2021

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta awarded Kew International Medal

Kew Science News

Soil dotted with light grey bell capped fungi Coprinellus disseminatus

25 August 2021

5 potential uses for fungi that you haven’t heard of

Rafael F. de Almeida

Dried cicada specimens missing lower part of body

25 August 2021

The psychedelic cicada-infecting fungus

Lee Davies

23 August 2021

Protecting Earth's ecological puzzle

Dr Samuel Pironon

Person in bright orange jacket sat looking out at a lake and the snow-topped mountains of South Georgia

12 August 2021

Unearthing alien species

Rachel Day

The white flower of Nicotiana insecticida

11 August 2021

The insect-killing tobacco plant

Professor Mark W Chase

5 July 2021

Archaeology meets DNA: peering into the past of the date palm

Dr Chelsea Snell, Dr Oscar Alejandro Pérez Escobar, Dr Natalia Przelomska, Dr Sidonie Bellot, Dr Philippa Ryan

Two bright yellow flowers of Skytanthus acutus Meyen.

2 July 2021

Finding novel treatments for malaria

Dr William Milliken, Dr Melanie-Jayne Howes, Dr Eimear M Nic Lughadha

Many different shape seeds and cones of Leucadendron species under microscope

23 June 2021

Rising from the ashes: the South African phoenix seeds

Dr Rosemary J Newton

Small umbrella-like grey fungi Coprinellus disseminatus

17 June 2021

Colombia’s fungi, an untapped opportunity for a sustainable bioeconomy

Dr Ester Gaya