Did Plant-Eating Dinosaurs Have Cheeks?
Did extinct these animals have cheeks? Paleontologists work from fossils of dinosaurs, so how can they know? An anatomist explains.
Year: 2019
To Grow or Not to Grow? Bacteria Make Seeds Think!
By Radhika Desikan A seed is the beginning of new life for most flowering plants. It has all the potential…
Impact of Developing Biofuels on Travel Emissions
With climate change and other environmental challenges looming large, does the use of organic biofuels help reduce transportation emissions?
Do We Really Need Fertilizers To Grow Crops?
Plants need nitrogen, and many plants depend on fertilizers to get enough. But scientists have been growing plants without fertilizers.…
Did Life On Earth Start as an RNA World?
To understand how life began, we must look far back in time. Back to a time when RNA, not DNA, might have been the building block of life.