Chopping down trees and processing the wood isn’t the most efficient or environmentally friendly way to make furniture or building materials. Scientists at MIT have now made breakthroughs in a process ...

For all the ways that humans have toyed with nature, how we grow and extract materials from the forest and fields remains fundamentally unchanged. To get lumber, for example, we plant a tree, let it ...

The Plant Physiology Laboratory and plant growth facilities span 2,200 square feet and are located on the 11th floor of the CNRC. Under the direction of a USDA plant physiologist, this laboratory is ...

A common lab plant that’s been poked and put under microscopes for decades may seem unlikely to keep secrets. But in widely studied Arabidopsis thaliana, scientists have identified the “cantil” — a ...

Wastewater plants emit about twice as much greenhouse gas as previously believed, according to Princeton engineers who used a mobile lab to check plants across the country. In an article published in ...

Scientists taught plants to make rare psychedelic compounds from plants, fungi, and animals, opening new possibilities for ...

Chile is home to the rare soapbark tree, known in the scientific community as Quillaja saponaria. These evergreens, which can stand 15 to 20 m tall and take a quarter of a century to mature, are by no ...

St. Louis is a plant science powerhouse, but outside the neatly tended rows of crops and gleaming greenhouses sits another ...

The $16.8-billion Vit Plant project at the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeast Washington has reached a significant milestone with the launch of the full startup testing phase. Hanford’s Waste ...

With the March launch of Impossible Foods’ plant-based meat in Singapore and this month’s announcement of S$144 million research funding in food innovation under the Government's Research, Innovation ...