Life Sciences and Biomedicine Archives

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.

By Radhika Desikan A seed is the beginning of new life for most flowering plants. It has all the potential…

With climate change and other environmental challenges looming large, does the use of organic biofuels help reduce transportation emissions?

Biology Botany

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…