In the summer of 2011, paleontologist and science writer Riley Black was on a mission. Walking through the Montana desert, she was on the lookout for a Tyrannosaurus rex. But that day, she wasn’t ...

A set of breakthroughs from scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is offering a new understanding of how energy flows through one of nature's ...

Humanity has always dreamed of traveling to alien worlds, and in some respects (read on a very small scale), we've already done that. But hardcore dreamers imagine a time when alien worlds in our ...

Where they live: Plants are found on every continent, even Antarctica, and every ocean. What they eat: Plants use sunlight for photosynthesis, which produces sugars that fuel them. Plants are an ...

Researchers from Japan conducted various experiments on this liverwort species to demonstrate that the mechanism underlying the activation of ROS-producing enzymes are likely shared among all land ...

When the sun goes down, most plants take a break from photosynthesis — the process that turns sunlight into energy and oxygen. At night, they usually absorb oxygen and release carbon dioxide, just ...

Researchers discovered that living horsetails act like natural distillation towers, producing bizarre oxygen isotope ...