
Agriculture
Dew collector brings water to thirsty plants
This invention grabs water from the air at night. All it needs is the sun’s warmth the next day to release that moisture to growing plants.
This invention grabs water from the air at night. All it needs is the sun’s warmth the next day to release that moisture to growing plants.
Plants can take in light, water and carbon dioxide, and send out sugar and oxygen. Here’s how it works.
Cinderella took a ride in a pumpkin coach. Though real pumpkins do get big enough, here’s why their ride would be uncomfortable at best.
As climate change spurs forest tree growth, it also shortens trees’ lives. That results in a quicker release of climate-warming carbon back into the atmosphere.
Langsdorffia are stripped down to their essentials. Lacking green leaves for photosynthesis, they steal energy and nutrients from other plants.
Carbohydrates are molecules with carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. Animals break down these chemicals in food to get energy.
Oval balls of moss, nicknamed ‘glacier mice,’ roll across some glaciers. A new study explores the mysteries behind their herd-like motion.
In a pollen shortage, some bees nick holes in tomato leaves. This can speed up flowering and pollen production by weeks.
Engineers have invented silk microneedles to inject medicines into plants. One day farmers might use drones to dart their sick plants with meds from the air.
Led by medieval texts, scientists hunted down a plant and used its fruit to make a blue watercolor with mysterious origins.