Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.

A new collaborative research team of plant scientists led by Ru Zhang, PhD, associate member, Danforth Plant Science Center has been awarded new funding from the National Science Foundation ...

Corrales, a recent biological sciences Ph.D. graduate from the University of Rhode Island, and his advisor, Associate Professor Carlos ...

An increasing number of researchers are keen to study plant stomata and figure out ways to manipulate them and develop hardier crops.

Ammonia (NH3) is a colorless chemical compound comprised of nitrogen and hydrogen that is widely used in agriculture and in ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

The Dr Emmanuel Attah Kumah Amponsah, who is a Senior Lecturer and a head of Department of Accounting, Banking and Finance at the Ghana Communication Technology University, Accra, sponsored Maths and ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

UBC Okanagan researchers have uncovered how plants create mitraphylline, a rare natural compound linked to anti-cancer ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

Researchers have created a dye-sensitized photocatalyst that captures long-wavelength visible light to double solar hydrogen ...