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Himalayan Thyme Reveals Pollen Trade-Off That May Threaten Its Mountaintop
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (722+ words) High on the ridges of the Kashmir Himalaya, a low-growing aromatic shrub is quietly rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how plants reproduce and survive as altitude climbs....
Root anatomy, metabolism and microbes team up to help plants survive
7+ hour, 2+ min ago (599+ words) Plant roots are far more than simple anchors. They are living interfaces, constantly negotiating with an invisible world of bacteria and fungi that surround them in the soil....
How Plants Strike a Balance Between Immune Power and Growth
10+ hour, 20+ min ago (79+ words) Plants cannot run from their enemies, so they have evolved an extraordinary arsenal of molecular sentinels that detect invading pathogens and launch defences within minutes. Yet this vigilance comes at a price: every burst of immune activity diverts energy, nutrients…...
A golden coral forest off Costa Rica forced scientists to add an entirely new branch to the tree of life
18+ hour, 1+ min ago (620+ words) Home - Environment - A golden coral forest off Costa Rica forced scientists to add an entirely new branch to the tree of life The coral was found by researchers during Schmidt Ocean Institute expeditions in 2019 and 2023. The remotely operated vehicle SuBastian…...
The Atlantic Ocean Has a Hidden 'Heat Valve' That Controls Earth's Temperature – And It Could Be Closing
19+ hour, 20+ min ago (468+ words) Our relatively stable global climate is governed by an incredibly complex set of factors, all interacting with each other in dynamic and changeable ways – but there are a couple of really big, key players in that system....
UL Lafayette study finds climate change could reshape marine life
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (811+ words) Research led by scientists at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette) is challenging a long-held belief about how marine animals will respond to climate change. Warmer oceans are expected to make many marine animals smaller by 2100, but a…...
Tomato study finds a ‘Golden Hour’ that could help crops survive drought
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1408+ words) Hebrew University researchers found that tomato drought resilience may depend on when plants use water, not just how much. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Tomato plants may hold one of their best drought defenses in a daily rhythm. New research from the Hebrew…...
Scientists treat bleached corals with bacteria as oceans heat up
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (1043+ words) Coral reefs are under growing heat stress, but a new field test suggests researchers may have another tool to help them cope. Coral probiotics have worked in tanks for years, where a researcher controls the water and decides when the…...
Meet the coral matchmakers betting on Florida’s toughest survivors
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (514+ words) MIAMI, Sept 10 — Off Florida’s coast, a team of scientists and trained volunteers in scuba gear descends to the ocean floor and begins planting young coral onto a reef and examining how others are faring in the increasingly warm waters. It…...
Unexpected: Plants Undermine Materialist Consciousness Theory?
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (556+ words) Panpsychism has often appeared to be a strategy for rescuing materialism: We have minds, but so what? So do electrons! What about it? While Calvo now runs the Minimal Intelligence Lab at the University of Murcia in Spain, he started…...