Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida scientist is set to make history Thursday by launching into space to see how plants "respond molecularly," according to a press release. University of ...

HAMDEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The nation’s oldest Plant Science Day taught children on Wednesday about how science is continuously impacting agriculture. “Essentially, it’s an open house where the public is ...

The Trichoderma Associated Space Tomato Inoculation Experiment is a study where researchers are investigating tomato plant growth patterns in a microgravity environment, project co-investigator and ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel have provided experimental evidence ...

Now that NASA has found evidence of water on Mars, astronauts will test the growth of a small plant in Martian soil, thanks to students at Bellevue’s Open Window School. The experiment will be one of ...

PWM stands for Plant Water Management. A novel way to use hydroponics to grow plants in space – no earth (lower case ?) required! As demonstrated here by Mark (who has great pedagogical skills), and ...

I don’t care how you prune your tomato plants. But if you prune them, the suckers present an interesting opportunity. New plants. One more weird thing about tomato plants is that they can create ...

Plants do not stay silent. New research shows how plant diversity changes smell based communication across ecosystems.

Growing up, we all had to do all kinds of science projects in school. For Baby Boomers, here are several classic science projects that just about everyone had to do at least once.