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Eating Red Meat Is Wreaking Havoc on Earth. So, Stop It!
January 17, 2019 | ArticleThere's a new diet in town, and it offers a two-for-one special: People can help the planet and even live longer … so long as they stop devouring so many burgers, a new report by an international commission finds.
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Those Tiny Cotton Sprouts China Grew on the Moon? They’re Dead Now
January 16, 2019 | ArticleChina managed to grow some tiny cotton sprouts on the moon, but it killed them. Here's how.
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Cotton Seed Sprouts on the Moon's Far Side in Historic First by China's Chang'e 4
January 15, 2019 | ArticleBefore China finished packing up its Chang'e 4 lunar lander to be blasted off on a never-before-accomplished journey to the far side of the moon, scientists slipped in a small tank of plant seeds. And now, the team announced, a cotton seed has sprouted.
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Scientists May Have Wildly Underestimated the Giant Dinosaurs of the Ancient World
July 17, 2018 | ArticleA new study of how plants grew in the environments of the dinosaur age offers some new clues about their populations.
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Bizarre, Parasitic 'Fairy Lantern' Reappears in the Rainforest After 151 Years
March 05, 2018 | ArticleA strange plant that needs no sunlight and sucks on underground fungi for nutrients has turned up in Borneo, Malaysia, 151 years after the last time a scientist found it.
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When the World Turned Green: Age of Plant Photosynthesis Revealed
December 27, 2017 | ArticleAncient rocks from a remote Canada island contain the oldest algae ever discovered.
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How Do Palm Trees Withstand Hurricanes?
September 12, 2017 | ArticleTrees generally snap, or at least lose a few branches, when faced with hurricane-strength winds. Not palm trees. These staples of the tropics typically bend during gusty weather.
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Beating Human Heart Tissue Grown from Spinach Leaves
March 28, 2017 | ArticleVegetables are good for your health, but now there's a whole new way that one veggie could help your heart: Spinach leaves can be used as a scaffold for beating human heart cells, a new study finds.
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1.6 Billion-Year-Old Specimens May Be Oldest Plant-Like Fossils
March 14, 2017 | ArticleScientists have discovered what may be the world’s oldest plant-like fossils, estimated to be 1.6 billion years old.
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What's Cookin'? Nothing, If You Were an Early Human
December 21, 2016 | ArticleAbout a million years before steak tartare came into fashion, Europe's earliest humans were eating raw meat and uncooked plants. But their raw cuisine wasn't a trendy diet; rather, they had yet to use fire for cooking, a new study finds.
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