Rising temperatures make plants lose more water, weakening their ability to absorb carbon dioxide and survive heat stress.

Plants play a key role in regulating Earth's climate, but recent research suggests that rising temperatures could disrupt ...

A study led by a team of researchers at the University of Kentucky's Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and ...

The project is called "Plants to Pixels" and volunteers can go online to help read and transcribe data from the digital images - translating them for the record.

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock to ...

Earth's Inner Core Is Undergoing a Transformation Feb. 10, 2025 — Earth's inner core is undergoing structural transformation. Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is ...

Researchers call on the international community to recognize and start tackling the 'biodiversity leak'. Some efforts to preserve or rewild natural habitats are shifting harmful land use to other ...

The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that ...

The acid growth theory states that the auxin-induced acidification of plant cell walls causes their expansion. A model now suggests that excessive acidification leads to growth inhibition ...

Chlorophyll is the green pigment modern plants rely on, but it may not have been Earth’s first choice for photosynthesis. Retinal is simpler and was likely present on Earth when atmospheric oxygen was ...

Art provides diversification in portfolios, exhibiting a low price correlation with stocks and bonds. As an investment, art can hedge against inflation, but expect bond-level returns. Investors ...