A government ministry has charted out a road map that sets a 2030 goal for implementing available technologies for artificial ...

Humans can do lots of things that plants can’t do. We can walk around, we can talk, we can hear and see and touch. But plants have one major advantage over humans: They can make energy directly from ...

Scientists have succeeded in synthesizing fumaric acid, a raw material for plastics, from CO2 powered by solar energy. Typically, fumaric acid is synthesized from petroleum as a raw material to make ...

We know microplastics are everywhere – but what's less clear is the harm they might be doing. New research puts those ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Genetically altering crops may be key to helping them adapt to extreme temperatures. But shrinking funds and social acceptance stand in the way. By Rebecca Dzombak The world’s bread baskets are ...

A new design of high-efficiency photodetector inspired by the structures responsible for photosynthesis in plants has been developed at the University of Michigan. It may pave the way for large-scale ...

A research team demonstrates that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with multispectral sensors can rapidly and accurately estimate two key photosynthetic traits—the maximum carboxylation rate ...