Since 2015, students from across the USA have been partnering with scientists at NASA to advance research on growing plants in space, ultimately to feed astronauts on long-distance space missions, as ...

How much of Earth’s plant diversity is distributed across islands, and how might this affect conservation efforts? It emerges that islands contain a disproportionately large share of global ...

From Tasmania to Madagascar to New Guinea, islands make up just over five per cent of Earth's land ... on more than 304,103 plants -- essentially all species known to science worldwide ...

They began changing the way the world looked almost as soon as they appeared on Earth about ... down on flowering plants," says Kirk Johnson of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

Laid down over millions of years, these rock layers contain a permanent record of the Earth's past, including the fossilized remains of plants and ... they lived by drawing water through their ...

A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed ...

Astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under lights designed to simulate the light of a star called a K-dwarf.

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

14, 2024 — Some people believe that talking to your plants makes them thrive ... colonies of ants began farming fungi when an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago. This asteroid impact ...

Extremely close-up images of a cannabis plant, spider eyes and a mouse ... Hannah Osborne is the planet Earth and animals editor at Live Science. Prior to Live Science, she worked for several ...

SYDNEY: Islands have long intrigued explorers and scientists. These isolated environments serve as natural laboratories for understanding how species evolve and adapt. Islands are also centres of ...

The same types of consumer-grade hobby drones heard buzzing overhead at the beach may play a key role in uncovering the Earth’s remaining ... custom-designed claw-like plant extraction device.