Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, giant fungi, algae, or a whole new kingdom of life. Some of these options ...

A bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil may not be a plant, animal, or even a fungus. Known asPrototaxites, this extinct ...

Scientists in the US who do research on mRNA technology worry their funding may be cut under President Trump. mRNA technology is the basis for COVID- and other vaccines and could play a role in cancer ...

Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have captured images of the microscopic ...

Explore the List of Saltwater Lakes in India, their significance, conservation challenges, and strategies for sustainable ...

Advanced techniques are allowing scientists to witness the process where plant cells generate cellulose fibers.

An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...