Researchers rebuild microscopic circadian clock that can control genes

Our circadian clocks play a crucial role in our health and well-being, keeping our 24-hour biological cycles in sync with light and dark exposure. Disruptions in the rhythms of these clocks, as with ...
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Start-up Leaficient says it has invented a photosynthesis-detecting camera

A new breakthrough in imaging could give greenhouse growers insight into plants they’ve never before been able to see.

Intense sunlight reduces plant diversity and biomass across global grasslands, study finds

The sun is the basis for photosynthesis, but not all plants thrive in strong sunlight. Strong sunlight constrains plant ...

Life Learned To Breathe Oxygen Hundreds of Millions of Years Earlier Than Scientists Thought

Oxygen is everywhere on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. Scientists think oxygen only became a lasting part ...
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Global warming is turbocharging the collapse of a major greenhouse gas

For decades, Earth’s forests, wetlands and soils quietly mopped up a huge share of the carbon pollution from cars, power ...