Australian microbe research is helping improve our understanding of the potential for life in extreme environments, offering ...

Where others see a natural air purifier, Ralf Reski, a plant biotechnologist at the University of Freiburg, saw untapped ...

Biomedicine shows the way to future food crops Date: February 18, 2025 Source: University of Queensland Summary: Researchers have introduced genetic material into plants via their roots, opening a ...

Stone Age cooks were surprisingly sophisticated, combining an array of ingredients and using different techniques to prepare and flavor their meals, analysis of some the earliest charred food ...

As such, the very proliferation of desalinization plants around the world‚ some 13,000 already supply fresh water in 120 nations, primarily in the Middle East, North Africa and Caribbean, is ...

Mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRT) could potentially be used to avoid mother-to-child transmission of mitochondria carrying disease-causing mutations. Shoukhrat Mitalipov and colleagues ...

When vine-curious Brooklynites walk into Tula Plants and Design—a small houseplant shop in Greenpoint with a vibrant Instagram presence and a profusion of leaves on every available horizontal ...

Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, two of this year's three Nobel laureates in chemistry. (Toby Melville/Reuters) One of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in physics, Geoffrey Hinton, who pioneered ...

Lost in the woods? You don't need to look far for food. A nutritious buffet of wild edible plants surrounds you, just waiting to be plucked, cracked, and uprooted.