Life Sciences and Biomedicine Archives

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.…

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.

Scientists studied how plants can grow better in conditions that mimic microgravity in space, highlighting the prospects of future space farming.

An intense wildfire can produce its own weather, potentially causing thunderstorms and even “firenadoes.” Read on to learn how.

There are thousands of genes in the human genome. Why are some genes are studied over and over again, while…

Farting is hilarious and gross and everyone is doing it so why can’t we talk about the science of it?!…

A new ultrafast camera technology called T-CUP is making it possible to see extremely fast phenomena, even light, in slow…

Do mummies decompose? Why or why not? Find out how mummification works, and what happens to a human body when…

Biology

By Kate Stone It turns out that many of us are better at facial recognition than we realize. For the…

Is the BPA found in plastics dangerous to our health? The science doesn’t look good. Learn when to avoid BPA and where it may be found.