Growing plants with colored light changes their nutrient content
Plants have five basic needs – food, water, air, light, and space. Outdoors, plants get everything they need from nature and some…
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Scientists used non-invasive electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve to help patients with Parkinson’s Disease walk…
Plants have five basic needs – food, water, air, light, and space. Outdoors, plants get everything they need from nature and some…
Have you ever tried to hang your coat over the corner of table? Unless it snags, it seems to always fall off. This question inspired two…
A group of agricultural researchers at West Virginia University wanted to find out if it was possible to grow lettuce year round using high…
Tabby’s Star, located 1,276 light years from Earth and named for its discoverer Tabetha S. Boyajian, created quite a buzz among…
How does a cell stay alive? How do molecules in a cell “know” how to react with one another? Does this chemistry become more…
When the NASA Space Shuttle was flying, it carried a variety of scientific equipment for running experiments. One of these devices was an…
All life on Earth survives because of the sun. Plants use a process called photosynthesis to transfer energy from the Sun’s rays into the…
Single celled prokaryotic microbes, such as bacteria and archaea, control almost every aspect of our daily lives, from our individual health…
It was no ordinary fishing trip. In May 2011, Denis Tweddle, a research associate of the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity…
1992 First exoplanet to orbit a main sequence star is discovered by Aleksander Wolszczan. The first confirmed exoplanet is a ‘hot…