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Most modern offices contain a surprising amount of harsh chemicals. If you’re heading back to work, check out our list of the best plants to clean the air (and reduce stress).
Diatoms’ tricks may offer new insights that keep solar cell energy running efficiently and robustly throughout their processes.
Precisely calibrated timekeepers are found in organisms from all domains of life. Biologists are studying how they influence plant/pathogen interactions – what they learn could lead to human medicines.
Ferns came along more than 200 million years before the dinosaurs walked the Earth. They were food for plant-eating dinosaurs and they’re really great survivors. Heather, age 8, wants to know more.
Humans - the very “carriers” who can spread dangerous microbes unthinkingly from their equipment and shoes - can instead become the first line of defence against a possible microscopic invasion.
Pollination in South Africa’s ecosystems is extremely complex. However new advances such as pollen metabarcoding help us understand interactions between pollinators and pollen.
Cladoxylopsid trees were hugely complex and very different to those we have now.
New research shows bees see a blue halo around flowers thanks to nanostructures on its petals.
If you want to live on Mars, you’re going to need to grow food. Seeds are naturally equipped to handle challenging Earth environments, but how well can they survive what they’ll encounter off-planet?
Inserting a random DNA mishmash into a plant or bacterium directs it to make a novel protein. Sifting through the resulting molecules, researchers may find ones have medical or agricultural uses.
Plants produce toxic fruit for everything from deterring fungi to causing constipation.
Some leaves are millimetres across, and others are a metre square. An international study has found the essential factors controlling leaf variations.
For mapping patterns of plant invasion from the sky, understanding plant behaviour on the ground and using it along with remote sensing cameras, is crucial.
Bees need pollen to survive and grow, but not all plants can provide the right mix.
Garden pollinators can turn their noses up at the flowers human eyes find most beautiful.
The globe is greening as plants grow faster in response to rising carbon dioxide. But a new analysis shows they aren’t using more water to do it - a rare piece of good news for our changing planet.
Health benefits of being close to nature are well established, but the rise of apartment living means we can’t always be close to greenery.
A survey of Australians found most (70%) thought that a plant-based diet would prevent disease. But what does the literature say? And is meat really bad that for you?
Climate change is set to expand Antarctica’s ice-free area, potentially helping native species to flourish but also paving the way for invasive species to gain a foothold.
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry, University of Westminster
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Plant Evolutionary Biologist, The University of Edinburgh
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Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Grinnell College
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Research Scientist in Biodiversity and Human Health, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Biology, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Horticultural Sciences and Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
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Senior Lecturer in Horticulture, Nottingham Trent University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, iThemba LABS
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Palaeontologist, Rhodes University
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Edith Cowan University
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Ph.D. Student in the School of Plant and Environmental Science, Virginia Tech
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Research fellow, University of Aberdeen
