Moss spores survived an extended stay on the outside of the ISS and remained capable of germinating once back on Earth. Their ...

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Plant robotics shows how living movement and sensing can power biodegradable machines that work with natural environments, ...

To see, Fujita’s team turned to Physcomitrium patens, a well-studied species moss commonly called spreading earthmoss. They ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

Moss spores survived nine months outside the space station, revealing surprising strength and new clues about life in space.

The moss was attached to the International Space Station, fully exposed to the harsh environment of the cosmos. Not only did ...

Plant-based meat used to sit quietly on the fringes, tucked away in health shops and the occasional vegetarian café. Now it’s ...

Is an organism a sum of its parts, or should they be considered as a whole? New research on ferns shows how the way scientists understand evolution affects how they study life.

In one of the hottest landscapes on Earth, a modest desert shrub is quietly rewriting what I thought plants could endure. By ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases – the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

For the first time, KIT researchers managed to reduce the number of chromosomes in a plant by fusing two chromosomes. (Illustration: Michelle Rönspies ...