NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Bob Hines work on the XROOTS space botany investigation, which used the station’s Veggie facility to test soilless hydroponic and aeroponic methods to grow plants.

Students in undergraduate and graduate programs learn biological concepts taught by dedicated faculty and gain hands-on research experiences in the laboratory and field using first-class equipment, ...

Plants play a key role in regulating Earth’s climate, but recent research suggests that rising temperatures could disrupt this balance, because plants are leaking more water than previously thought.

Vascular plants that moved back into the water did not simply shed complexity and shrink their genomes. New genomic work shows that many aquatic lineages instead rewire and expand key gene families, ...

An international team of researchers including professor Emmett Duffy of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science has published a comprehensive new analysis showing that loss of plant biodiversity ...

It happened like this: The end of a decade of fast-paced change was looming. NASA was in the spotlight, pressured to provide both solutions and a justification for U.S. national pride. The space ...

Current Science is a fortnightly journal published since 1932 by the Current Science Association, Bangalore (India) in collaboration with the Indian Academy of Sciences. The journal covers all ...