Cyborg Botany is emerging as a new field of research where plants are being developed into interactive living technology. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scientists are exploring ways to ...
The Academy of Natural Sciences and the Mütter Museum have exhibitions about the role of plants in nation building. ''Botany of Nations,'' at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's westward trek mapped a route to the Pacific in the early 1800s, and the "Botany of Nations" explores the plants they collected along the way ...
In this episode, we’ll learn how plant knowledge can help you navigate everyday life. Plants have got you surrounded. They’re in your toothpaste, your bedsheets, and your regular Taco Bell order. In ...
Peter Raven transformed the field of botany. His research in plant evolution, classification and biogeography deepened our understanding of how ...
During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...
They have the ability to detect the growth rates of neighboring crops and flowers through aromatic cues. The post Plants ‘spy ...
Plants have got you surrounded. They’re in your toothpaste, your bedsheets, and your regular Taco Bell order. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll find out what botanists study and how ...