Drumroll, please: Announcing the Perennial Plant of the Year for 2014. It's an upright and robust member of the switchgrass family (Panicum virgatum) known commonly as Northwind. Before a plant can be ...

Feb. 1, 2006 — -- It grows throughout the Great Plains and parts of the South, can be used to make ethanol -- an efficient and environmentally friendly fuel for cars -- and it has the potential ...

Megan Fox, Colson Baker and Bruce Willis star in the upcoming crime-thriller Midnight in the Switchgrass Megan Fox and Colson Baker are heating up the screen in their new movie. PEOPLE is excited to ...

It's natural, it's all-American, it's a native that was here before any humans arrived, and it's green in many ways. It's switchgrass. We've blogged about this prairie grass that once stood taller ...

Switchgrass yields more than 540 percent more energy than the energy needed to produce and convert it to ethanol, making the grassy weed a far superior source for biofuels than corn ethanol, reports a ...

Colson Baker and Megan Fox met on the set of 'Midnight in the Switchgrass' (Photo: Lionsgate / Courtesy Everett Collection) "There was magic in that room, 100 percent," he tells Yahoo Entertainment ...

Megan Fox and Bruce Willis play FBI agents investigating the disappearance and brutal murders of young women in a sleepy Florida town. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Midnight in the ...

The serial-killer thriller is a genre that, by now, has used up all its natural resources. It feels like there’s nothing left to discover in it — which is why last year’s “The Little Things,” for all ...

New University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research highlights switchgrass’ potential as a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Switchgrass, a promising bioenergy crop, could help meet the US goal of ...

Those who live east of the Rocky Mountains have probably encountered switchgrass, perhaps without even realising it. A hardy perennial, the roadside and prairie grass is as ubiquitous as it is ...