Tag: plants

Plants too experience internal nutrient traffic jams, and they're fantastic at responding to them.

A new study overturns a classic textbook theory.

Anti-vaxxers finally have a natural option.

You could make tea at those temperatures.

When we said 'Go green,' this really wasn't what we had in mind.

To be fair it works with other plants too, but I was shooting for a culinary title.

It's basically a huge fridge for seeds -- and it just got bigger.

Best enjoyed with a stone fork from a bark plate.

Hardy little things too.

Plants > Chemicals.

The next generation of monitor sensing could be half plant, half machine.

That's not very nice.

A light scavenger can teach us a lot about energy efficiency.

You can't take 10% out of something and still expect it to work.

A long-standing assumption that as the planet warms, the biosphere releases more CO2 in a positive feedback loop was confirmed ...

Bees have a very keen sense of smell -- they have to in order to survive. But air pollution is ...

Carrots are the richest source of vitamin A in the American diet, which is why you hear "they're good for ...

A forest's trees capture carbon not only for themselves, but also engage in an active "trade" of sorts with their ...

Spiders' diets aren't limited to juicy insect bits. They spice up their menus with vegetarian courses too, zoologists from the ...

If we want to have a permanent or long-term mission to Mars, then growing crops locally would be very useful.

This bright orange zinnia was grown in the Vegetable Production System (also known as the gloriously puny "Veggie"), a deployable ...

Plants signal stress when they're affected by drought, high temperatures or a disease using the same chemical and electrical signals ...

Forget potato clocks - this is the real deal. Plant-e, a start-up company in the Netherlands created promising new technology ...

A while ago, Andrei published a post in which he uploaded and spoke about seven key charts that show plain ...

After performing an exhaustive quantitative research across numerous plant species, scientists at  UCLA's College of Letters and Science  have found that ...

(c) S. Zhong and J. Giovannoni A newly published researchers by scientists at University of California Davis and Cornell University ...

Carnivorous plants may soon have to give up their meaty habits and turn veggie, as a recent study found that ...

Antarctica is home to one of harshest environments in the world, but exactly because of this it exhibit a unique ...

In the darkest caves of  southwest China, one can experience fragments of the long set Ice Age and travel back ...

Named Leefructus, the captioned above perfectly preserved flower is estimated to be 123 to 124 million years old, which makes ...