The spacecraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean after a parachute failure, ending a bold experiment in space biology and ...

Tired of city life, a couple moved from Mumbai to a quiet hill in Mahabaleshwar. On abandoned land, they began again — ...

Learn how trees use massive amounts of water through the process of transpiration for the benefit of themselves and the Earth.

Plants and trees extend their roots into the earth in order to draw nutrients and water from the soil—however, these roots are thought to decline as they move deeper underground. But a new study by a ...

Beyond that, plants are excellent multitaskers. They produce oxygen (perhaps the most vital substance on a space station) and recycle waste and water. Growing plants in space also lets us learn more ...

Growing orchids hydroponically lets the roots stay moist while also keeping them safe from root rot as opposed to growing them in soil, where moisture can be trapped and air flow around the roots is ...

A new paper offers a roadmap for integrating crop resilience and carbon mitigation into national and global climate ...

Despite rice being the staple food for more than half of the world's population, its cultivation remains highly ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Roots are rarely exposed, and so misconceptions about how they grow and function can influence tree managers into bad decision making.

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...