For decades, researchers have focused on the problem of overgrazing, in which expanding herds of cattle and other livestock degrade grasslands, steppes and desert plains. But a new global study ...

The device reveals how microscopic pores on leaves, known as stomata, manage the exchange of carbon dioxide, oxygen, and ...

A foliar-applied urea nitrogen application failed to provide either a wheat yield response or grain protein increase across ...

Plant hydraulic functioning is a core determinant of how terrestrial vegetation responds to climate change from a functional ...

A lush indoor sanctuary full of plants can double as a reading nook and ward off the winter blues.

Indoors, its dependable value is simpler: upright leaves catch dust, slow transpiration softens dry heat, and the plant stays ...

A physics experiment published this year that claimed to measure a single photon in two places at once – and, in the process, discredit the idea of a multiverse – drew pushback from many sceptical ...

Experimental particle physicists working at the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory have found evidence against the existence of a "sterile" type of neutrino hypothesized ...

A near-100-year-old debate between the theoretical physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr has finally been settled—and not in the former’s favor. A team of physicists in China have realized a ...

By observing plants in winter, children learn the art of careful water use, understanding how nature balances survival and ...

Philip G. Zimbardo, a Stanford University social psychologist whose aborted 1971 experiment, employing college students to play prison guards and inmates, became one of the most controversial episodes ...