Plants 'breathe' with millions of tiny mouths—lasers illuminate evolution of stomata behavior
Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...
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NASA tracks changes in seasonal flower cycles and migration patterns from the air
NASA scientists are using airborne technology to track flowers from above, offering new insights into seasonal plant cycles.
Plants breathe with millions of tiny mouths. We used lasers to understand how this skill evolved
Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...
Supernovas may have had a role in two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions, study suggests
A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...
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Book Review: The Dazzling Complexity of the Frozen World
In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.
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Research reveals the underground 'traffic' between fungi and plants
An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...
What Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel ‘Aranyak’ says about his understanding of forests
A college graduate, without a job or parental and financial support, Bibhutibhushan had to leave Calcutta for Bihar to become ...
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The stars are aligning for Graphite One
Graphite One could take a leading role in loosening China’s tight grip on the US graphite market by mining feedstock from its ...
Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon
Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...
A blue plate in a world of greenhouse gases: Eating nutritious food in a sustainable way
No stranger to snow, Easter had traveled from his home in Colorado, where he's been a greenhouse gas accountant and ecology ...
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You Haven’t Lived Until You’ve Explored This Stunning Botanical Garden Hiding In Oklahoma
The Tulsa Botanic Garden isn’t just a garden; it’s Oklahoma’s answer to Eden, minus the troublesome serpent and with significantly better pathways.
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How plants build their cell walls is seen by scientists for the first time ever
The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...