By combining advanced catalysts with engineered bacteria, researchers have developed a “bionic leaf” that can produce hydrocarbon fuels such as isopropanol and isobutanol from solar energy, water, and ...

Image-based plant phenotyping has become crucial in understanding plant biology and agriculture. However, distinguishing relevant biological structures from the background remains a challenge, ...

Photosynthesis – turning the sun’s energy into food for plants – is the biological system that feeds the world. But despite its awesome power, the process is extremely inefficient. We can’t really ...

Biodiversity scientists are using a language tree to help guide efforts to preserve threatened languages, outlines a new report. One of the world's 7,000 languages vanishes every other week, and half ...