Now, after years of experimenting with common bean plants in the lab and in the agricultural fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, ...

Scientists have uncovered how the interplay between cell shape and mechanical stress influences the orientation of stomata ...

Plant developmental biology is witnessing rapid advances in understanding the roles of cytoskeletal interactions in shaping growth, morphology, and ...

For thousands of years, our understanding of Neanderthals painted them as brute-force hunters, powerful, relentless, and single-mindedly carnivorous. They chased mammoths across frozen plains, brought ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

“I saw it for the first time in 1972,” Natalia Oliinychenko says, looking at Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant; “it was amazing and so modern.” Inspired by that first visit, she returned a few years ...

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Long before dinosaurs roamed the land, Earth looked very different from the planet we know today. Around 500 million years ago, most of Earth's surface was bare rock and dry soil. There were no trees, ...

Plants constantly juggle oxygen inside their cells, but scientists have now discovered a surprising twist in how that balance works. Researchers at the University of Helsinki found that ...

Cross section of hypocotyl of 8-week-old Arabidopsis thaliana. The ovac mutant displays enhanced secondary vessel differentiation (red) at the expense of parchenchyma cells. Images A2 and B2 show the ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...