In “Why Do We Exist?” Hakeem Oluseyi explores how life may emerge to move energy through matter—and why Earth is the perfect ...

Mowing your lawn correctly involves more than just cutting. Maintaining a height of at least three inches shades the soil, ...

Many home gardeners are surprised when their plants look healthy and full but still produce fewer vegetables than expected.

The planet is almost 25,000 miles around and 4.54 billion years old, and humans are still discovering some of the amazing ...

Take a 4 to 6 inch semi-hardwood cutting from a healthy rosemary plant in late spring, strip the lower leaves, pop it into ...

Teemu Miettinen discusses his innovative method for measuring intracellular water, revealing its critical role in cell ...

A small, unassuming moss has survived nearly nine months in the vacuum of space and still managed to grow once back on Earth.

And yet there are a handful of plants on Long Island that aren’t green and don’t make their own food by using sunlight and carbon dioxide. These fascinating group of plants are known as parasitic ...

A new review explores how higher temperatures influence plant growth and viability despite higher concentrations of atmospheric CO2. Agricultural scientists who study climate change often focus on how ...

For many years, designing synthetic polymer systems has been inspired by the hierarchical self-assembly of folded proteins ...

Key PointsEarly Earth's atmosphere contained carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen and water vapor, but it was virtually devoid of free oxygen.The ...