Life Sciences and Biomedicine Archives

Plants Communicate with Neighbors in Response to Touch

By Radhika Desikan How well do you and your neighbour know each other? Chances are, very little these days. But…

Can exploding stars dozens of light years away affect life on earth? Learn how a supernova can affect the earth, from organisms ozone.

How do people live with the threat of wildfires, and what can be done to protect lives? Indigenous Californians may have a solution.

Paleontology

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.