If you’re a gardener – and definitely if you’re a farmer – you want to spend less on fertilizer but while growing more food.

A long-term experiment reveals tropical forests in Panama are able to adapt to droughts, but scientists warn this short-term ...

Dr. Dianne I Greenfield CUNY Advanced Science Research Center & Queens College Associate Professor in Environmental Sciences (Oceanography) Area of Research: Biological Oceanograp ...

From morning glories spiraling up fence posts to grape vines corkscrewing through arbors, twisted growth is a problem-solving ...

Scientists have long known that mutations in certain genes affecting microtubules in plants can cause plants to grow in a twisting manner. In most cases, these are “null mutations,” meaning the ...

Soil contamination by cadmium is a growing global challenge that threatens food safety, agricultural productivity, and ...

In an interesting turn of botanical events, University of Houston engineers report that while melatonin keeps us asleep, it wakes up plants, helping them grow. Melatonin, a hormone produced in the ...

Abstract: Understanding the complexities of plant growth experiments is crucial for advancements in agriculture and environmental science. However, the lack of standardized methods for documenting and ...

A collaboration between scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Greifswald in Germany has uncovered a powerful new way volcanoes give life to the Earth: ...

Global agriculture relies heavily on the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer to meet the current global food demand. Unfortunately, the average nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) of maize (Zea mays ssp.

Succulents glow in shades of red, green, blue, and more after being infused with afterglow phosphor particles that absorb and slowly release light. CREDIT: Liu et al., Matter 2025 Get the Popular ...