The basics of photosynthesis are something that every student learns in school: carbon dioxide, water and light in; oxygen ...

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

By combining a custom-built optical instrument with physics-based modeling and machine learning, the study shows that leaf-level optical properties ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction ...

Meritus Gas Partners reports that maintaining optimal conditions in grow houses involves controlling light, temperature, ...

The Chernobyl tragedy was one of the most dreadful tragedies of all time. It happened when a routine test at the Chernobyl ...

Corals obtain energy in two ways: firstly, through photosynthesis by their symbiotic algae, and secondly by taking up small food particles such as plankton directly from the water. In scientific terms ...

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Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice ...

Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ...

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...