Microplastics can cut a plant’s ability to photosynthesize by up to 12 percent, new research shows microplastics are ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Most of life’s engines run on sunlight. Photons filter down through the atmosphere and are eagerly absorbed by light-powered ...

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Winter brought a colder and icier season to the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie, which saw a near-complete ice cover in ...

Confronting images of dead seadragons, fish and octopuses washed up on South Australian beaches—and disturbing reports of ...

Planting your own vegetable garden can save families hundreds of dollars each year, say experts. Here's where to begin.

As well as some of the darkest skies on the U.S. East Coast, it's also the nation's southernmost point. At 24.5 degrees north ...

That process, called carbon fixation, resulted in the assembly of two three-carbon molecules called 3-phosphoglycerate (3-PGA ...

A new disease is plaguing cornfields across the Midwest. Phyllachora maydis is the fungus that causes a corn disease called ...

On average, these little particles could reduce photosynthesis in plants and algae by up to 12 percent, according to the ...