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For those of us who aren’t blessed with a green thumb and who are perhaps a bit forgetful, plants can be surprisingly difficult to keep alive. In those cases, some …read more Continue reading Preserve your Plants with an Automated Terrarium
A terrarium is a little piece of the living world captured in a small enclosure you can pop on your desk or coffee table at home. If you want to …read more Continue reading Smart Terrarium Run By ESP32
Nickel contamination can render soils infertile at levels that are currently impractical to treat. Researchers at UMass Amherst are looking at how plants can help these soils and source nickel …read more Continue reading Phytoremediation to Clean the Environment and Mine Critical Materials
Scientists in Japan have created hybrid plant-animal cells, essentially making animal cells that can gain energy from sunlight like plants. The breakthrough could have major benefits for growing organs and tissues for transplant, or lab-grown meat.Cont… Continue reading Plant-animal hybrid cells make solar-powered tissues, organs or meat
If you were a flowering plant, wouldn’t you want your pollen to be received by a plant of your own kind? According to a new study, at least one plant may ensure that happens, by blasting “rival” pollen off of pollinating animals’ bodies.Continue Readin… Continue reading Explosive flower blasts beaks to dislodge rival pollen
If you were a flowering plant, wouldn’t you want your pollen to be received by a plant of your own kind? According to a new study, at least one plant may ensure that happens, by blasting “rival” pollen off of pollinating animals’ bodies.Continue Readin… Continue reading Explosive flower blasts beaks to dislodge rival pollen
If you were a flowering plant, wouldn’t you want your pollen to be received by a plant of your own kind? According to a new study, at least one plant may ensure that happens, by blasting “rival” pollen off of pollinating animals’ bodies.Continue Readin… Continue reading Explosive flower blasts beaks to dislodge rival pollen
It’s always best if farmers can detect drought stress before crop plants become wilted, weakened and lower-yielding. An experimental new portable device could help in that regard, as it uses ultrasound to spot such stress in its earliest stages.Continu… Continue reading Portable device spots drought-stressed crops before it’s too late
Many indoor plant enthusiasts already know that mirrors can be used to direct more sunlight onto plants that need it. Scientists have now developed a method of applying that same principle to endangered tree seedlings that are struggling to grow in sha… Continue reading Forest-floor mirrors give shaded seedlings a 175% growth-boost
Glass-fragment waste typically just ends up in landfills, but perhaps that doesn’t always have to be the case. A new study shows that ground glass particles can be mixed with soil to produce a plant growth medium that’s actually better than soil alone…. Continue reading For a better plant growth medium, just add ground glass