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The ingenious minds at Primitive Technology experiment with a space-ready superplant that could sustain human life through ...

Humans rely on metaphors to guide a shared understanding of our complex world, and in a novel twist, a faculty member in the ...

Scientists at MIT discover how lanthanides, a class of rare earth metals, help crops resist UV stress by enhancing ...

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A monitor lizard, or Varanus salvator, joins the bird in front of the lens, blundering into the clearing as the bird once again shoots up its feathers and charges the lizard before darting off, the ...

In a bold step toward sustainable space travel, scientists are engineering a radically small, protein-rich rice that can grow ...