22 April 2004: This morning Maria van der Hoeven, Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science, officially started the Seeds in Space experiment. ESA astronaut André Kuipers is conducting the ...

Basehor-Linwood elementary schools are taking advantage of Linwood Elementary School teacher Lisa Turney’s role as an Astro_moji mission specialist working with a science experiment currently taking ...

Plants have always depended on sunlight to grow. Photosynthesis, the process of turning sunlight into energy, has shaped ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The first hole the scientists dug was in the wrong place. They were looking for a bottle, one of 20 buried in the fall of 1879 by a botanist named William James Beal in a secret ...

Each year, I try to grow a few different fruits and vegetables. Sometimes the unknown crop turns out to be a dud that produces a lackluster harvest, a pitiful yield or simply proves to be poorly ...

On a brisk September morning, Brian Palik’s footfalls land quietly on a path in flickering light beneath a red pine canopy in Minnesota’s iconic Northwoods. A mature red pine, also called Norway pine, ...