Plants

Moon Cotton For the first time in history, humans have grown something on the surface of the Moon. When China’s Chang’e-4 lander left on its…

Enter a Brazilian industrial engineer and his partners, who think they have a solution. The team calls their invention Nucleario — a circular device…

Credit: Wageningen University Growing tomatoes at the same height so that they can be easily picked by a harvesting robot. Growing deeper roots…

As the world heats up, plants face a dilemma — the same tiny holes they have to open to exchange gases also let out water. They can close the holes,…

It doesn’t look like a bat, but it sees like oneEliakim et al. By Yvaine Ye New robots can learn old tricks. Bats use sound to navigate their…

The extraction process. Credit: Universiti Putra Malaysia An analysis of the chemical signals sent out by rice plants under attack by the brown…

View through a microscope of a young, wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana seedling with fluorescent protein marking the plasma membrane. Credit: Anne…

The price of renewables is at rock bottom, making nuclear power look pointlessly expensive. But new atomic plants could be cheap – and safer too…

Even nuclear power plants struggle in the heatMark Wilson/The Boston Globe via GettyBy Michael Le Page As large parts of the northern…

President Trump again today incorrectly claimed that Apple is planning to build “new plants” in the United States. As noted by Business…