Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered the origin of a curious duplication that gives plants ...

The study led by Xuehua Zhong, a professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, was published Nov. 6 in Science ... that provide plants with additional copies of genetic information. Using a common ...

This physicist and self-described “plasma guy” (and former head of Argonne National Laboratory) delves into whether can ...

We have seen a recent surge of interest in whether it’s possible to grow potatoes and other plants in Martian soil, but what ...

Plants use photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide ... As Feng Jiao, one of the paper’s co-authors, explains to Popular Science, “In basic CO 2 electrolysis, acetate is a minor product ...

The study published in Science shows that the protein ... successfully reconstituting of these compounds in other plants has not yet been achieved. The project group "Specialized Steroid ...

We all know cacti store water—but to survive, they migrate their flowers, and so much more. Scientists want to copy the resilient plants' methods to help engineer our future.

Researchers from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) as part of an international group have discovered that the use of selenium ... different effects on plant growth and physiology.

Researchers at MIT are developing innovative agricultural technologies such as stress-signaling plants, microbial fertilizers, and protective seed coatings to adapt farming to climate change and ...

Associate Professorial Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science ... people using the courts to block ...

“The science is clear,” Vice President ... dozens of clean energy projects have broken ground and the number of Americans using federal incentives to buy more efficient cars and appliances ...