The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have recently announced their plans to oversee the production of lab-grown meat, ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according ...

An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands ...

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WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...

Students will conduct hands-on laboratory research in the field of photosynthesis and plant molecular biology, working with genetically modified plants (Nicotiana tabacum, a well-established model ...

Using fossil fuels to produce energy has had a detrimental impact on the planet. Despite pushes for cleaner energy, the power sector is still the top producer of harmful emissions according to the ...

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz contributed to a new global study published in Science that reveals how severe, long-term drought affects crucial grassland and shrubland ecosystems around the world.

Observe how plants convert light into energy in real time—this experiment captures gas exchange, color change, and growth as photosynthesis unfolds before your eyes. What the US Supreme Court has said ...

Astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station have, for the first time, produced oxygen and ingredients for rocket fuel in orbit using "artificial photosynthesis" technology, in a breakthrough that ...

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