A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

Grades are a standard part of the American educational system that most students and teachers take for granted. But what if ...

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in dark forest undergrowth. Scientists surveying rare populations across East ...

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Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “The Serviceberry,” offers ideas rooted in nature for creating sharing economies as a way to ...

Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the ...

A new method predicts leaf optical properties from traits, improving canopy light modeling and photosynthesis estimates in ...

Gardeners can use AI technology to manage routine tasks, improve the accuracy and timing of decisions, learn faster from the ...

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Corrales, a recent biological sciences Ph.D. graduate from the University of Rhode Island, and his advisor, Associate ...