Local students were among the top winners at the California Science & Engineering State Fair. The big picture: When you hear ...

Tropical forests contain thousands of plant species that survive long dry periods without attracting much scientific ...

Some things in our world are just so freaky that it makes people think there's no way they can be real. Take the platypus, ...

Scientists used CRISPR/Cas9 to increase gene expression in rice by changing its upstream regulatory DNA. While other studies have used the technology to knock out or decrease the expression of genes, ...

Almost every month, Emory University physicist Justin Burton and his graduate students step out of the lab and bring loud, ...

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures have conducted ...

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has completed a research study identifying how plants protect ...

Photosynthesis is the oldest carbon-capture technology on Earth. For eons, plants have pulled carbon dioxide from the ...

Science fiction is not monolithic. There are, in fact, two major sub-genres that divide sci-fi — hard sci-fi and speculative (or soft) sci-fi — and most of the time, the delineation between the two is ...

A team of Chinese scientists has found a way to introduce plant-based, light-activated nanoparticles into animal cells to improve their health and lifespan. When the team’s photosynthetic ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...