Plants "spy" on their neighbors by sniffing out their growth spurts, reveals new research. They have the ability to detect ...

Electricité de France (EdF) has inaugurated new laboratories at the Materials Ageing Institute (MAI) in France, which will examine the link between materials science and power plant component ...

Research from North Carolina State University shows plants can extract rare earth metals from contaminated sites.

New research reveals that plants have the ability to detect their neighbors' growth rates through aromatic cues called ...

Tomato and tobacco plants make distinctive sounds when cut or dehydrated, a new study has found. Those sounds change depending on the plant emitting them and the type and severity of the threat that ...

Yuan Xu, postdoctoral researcher in the Sharkey lab, uses a LICOR to measure the rate of photosynthesis in a plant. They found that under these conditions, plants photosynthesize more, which can lead ...