hope to create a smart greenhouse, one that manipulates sunlight to grow plants faster and with less energy. The project grew out of a discussion Natalie Ronayne had with her boss nearly two years ago ...

Underneath a mound of earth in a small northeast Minneapolis backyard something groundbreaking is happening: Food is growing in the dead of winter. “It’s so hot in here that the tomatoes are out of ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Baking soda and vinegar are everyday products we have in our households, right? Well today our weather experiment will combine them to help us learn about greenhouse gases. An exploding ...

Portions of 40 acres of University of Illinois farmland this summer are sprouting soybeans grown in the presence of carbon dioxide levels forecast for the year 2050. Next summer, elevated levels of ...

In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would lead ...

Ecologists have measured plant-soil feedbacks for six perennial prairie grass species in a short-term greenhouse study, and say their findings do not match outcomes observed in long-term experiment ...