A team of Chinese scientists has unveiled a breakthrough method that turns carbon dioxide ...

Plants fix 258 billion tons of CO2 in their chloroplasts through photosynthesis every year. For these cell organelles to work properly, they require certain minerals—particularly ions of the metals ...

The work provided a systematic understanding of how nightshade crops, including potatoes and tomatoes, adapt to stressful conditions at the level of entire gene networks, rather than individual genes, ...

Sleep is essential for much of the animal kingdom. During the night, neuron and tissue repair mechanisms are activated to aid ...

Plants growing close together are usually described in practical terms. They compete for light, share soil, and crowd the ...

Life Processes is often treated as a chapter to memorise, but it is far more than that. From photosynthesis to respiration, ...

A hidden pigment helps ocean algae harness sunlight without getting burned—and it may hold clues for better solar tech.

Frost-bite is a peculiar and distinctive winter phenomenon in the hills here, wherein, the white ice crystals of frost deposited over the plants, cultivable crops and tea bushes, gradually char ...

This optical supercell traps sunlight, then amplifies its intensity up to 6,000×, creating a light surge scientists compare to thousands of panels ...

An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands ...

Carba, a Minnesota company in the growing biochar industry, installed a one-of-a-kind reactor in its Burnsville facility in December that will help grow the state’s pioneering role in the industry.