Space isn't known for rich soil or ideal agricultural conditions anywhere in the solar system. Yet amid extreme temperatures ...

A bizarre series of events in a college microbiology lab class left 33 people—including students, professors, and lab workers ...

We have shown we can reduce herbicide rates by three fourths of what they normally use and we can reduce those numbers of ...

Led by Brown faculty, high schoolers in an intensive, two-week Summer@Brown course combine cellular biology, 3D printing and ...

A majestic forest tree, an American chestnut was typically 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 meters) in height, but could grow as tall as 150 feet (45 meters) over its several-hundred-year ...

Construction is underway on a new Innovation and Discovery Lab at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory that will expand hands-on learning ...

UW graduate student Tyler Gonzales, left, and molecular biology undergraduate Carter Wiberg, of Rock Springs, work on a ...

A major study led by Macquarie University has examined the deep environmental, technological and societal challenges confronting Australia—including a hotter climate, more frequent extreme fires, ...

In the past, we talked about ‘the role of ethnobotany in scientific research’. This week, we are looking into the role of scientific research in ethnobotany. Let me share what prompted this twist.

BHU's DBT-Interdisciplinary School launches a new research-focused M.Sc Life Sciences program starting 2026-27 with a multidisciplinary curriculum.

Astronaut Mark Watney is stranded on Mars and must somehow find a way to grow potatoes in the planet’s unforgiving, ochre soil before he starves. This is the plot of The Martian, which is very much a ...