Kenyan fig trees can literally turn parts of themselves to stone, using microbes to convert internal crystals into ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Chemists at the School of Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have recently made ...

morgan23 / Getty Images A fully grown tree may lose several hundred gallons of water through its leaves on a hot, dry day. The same tree will lose nearly no water on wet, cold, winter days, so ...

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Artificial photosynthesis shows a promising potential for sustainable supply of nutritional ingredients. While most studies focus on the assembly of the light-sensitive chromophores to 1-D ...

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Altering photosynthesis is still a distant goal, said Walid Sadok, a crop physiologist at the University of Minnesota who was not involved with the paper. “It’s a complex endeavor,” he said.