The moths in your garden might hear your tomato plant's pain.
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Plants are very sensitive to touch, with research showing that touching a plant can change its genome and launch a cascade of plant hormones.
Meet the power plant of the future.
We want to fight invasive species. But to wage a war, you have to know who your enemy is.
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.
Overwintering is profoundly stressful for trees. So why do they bother?
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
A common weed uses uncommon types of photosynthesis.
Americans on average consumed about 58 pounds of beef and veal in 2019 – compared with a global average of 14 pounds.
It’s sustainable, nutritious and delicious. Scientists need to ramp up efforts to meet this urgent need.
Preventing scurvy is not just a problem in the Antarctic.
Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.
U.S. nuclear power plants are built to survive external attacks. Even missiles or a commercial aircraft strike would not cause a meltdown or radiation leak.
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
Anesthesia causes animals and humans to lose consciousness. A study found it has a similar effect on Venus flytraps.
The war in Ukraine is unlikely to trigger a catastrophic nuclear meltdown. Physics and smart engineering are the reasons why.
A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota's largest patch of old-growth trees.
Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of "The Immortality Key," unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
At least one of Earth's creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
The good news is that it can be countered with acne medication.
Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
Parasites aren’t limited to just worms and ticks. Even some plants like to feed off others — and they perhaps could help fight invasive species.
“I thought, why not direct these high-power beams, instead of into fusion plasma, down into rock and vaporize the hole?”