Bright, thriving indoor plants do not require expensive specialty equipment to flourish. Many home gardeners achieve stronger ...

For most of their lives, plants get their energy from photosynthesis. But during the seed to seedling stage, when they can't ...

In the vast plume of the Amazon River, microscopic algae adopt a surprisingly flexible survival strategy: They combine ...

Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, ...

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the sheer volume of advice out there about cultivating indoor plants, you’re not alone.

Ancient lycophytes may have survived extreme heat during Earth’s worst extinction using a rare photosynthesis method.

In “Why Do We Exist?” Hakeem Oluseyi explores how life may emerge to move energy through matter—and why Earth is the perfect ...

Did you know plants don’t “eat” like we do? Plants don’t grow by getting food through their roots. They are like chefs: they make their food by combining what they find in the air with water from their ...

Field trials show that applying T6P as a foliar spray can increase photosynthesis by adjusting the balance between supply (photosynthetic sugar production) and demand (growth processes requiring ...

Using fossil fuels to produce energy has had a detrimental impact on the planet. Despite pushes for cleaner energy, the power sector is still the top producer of harmful emissions according to the ...

As Earth’s population grows, we will need more food. According to one estimate, we may need to nearly double our crop yields in the next century to keep up. At the same time, climate change and wild ...