Students at a remote high school in Western Australia have set their sights on international competition, after successfully pulling off some eye-opening scientific research. The teenagers, all ...

Bring Science to Life with Hands-On Plant Experiments! Make your next science unit unforgettable! These 10 fun and simple plant experiments help students explore how light, water, and soil affect ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that plants will not be able to evolve fast enough to adapt to a rapidly warming ...

NAOMI: The plants around us are all at different stages in their life cycle. Some are just beginning to grow, some have grown leaves, flowers or fruit and some have been living for a long time and ...

This lesson introduces children to experiments and how to run a fair test with an experiment investigating what plants need to grow healthily. This PowerPoint presentation lesson is complete with ...

There may be a whole range of reasons why it's not good to water plants in the middle of the day, but is burning the plant's leaves one of them? Dr Karl investigates the physics of plants and water.

A tree being attacked by insects cannot run away. But that does not mean it is chemically helpless. When leaves are damaged by herbivores, pathogens or mechanical injury, plants can release volatile ...

MANY people have seen the way a Mimosa pudica plant, also called the touch-me-not, folds its leaves when they are touched. Fewer know that if you put one into a sealed chamber with a dose of ...

CHILD: There are some over here. NAOMI: A plant is a living thing that grows and makes new plants. There are many different types of plants around us, including plants that flower, grasses, mosses and ...

In a one-of-a-kind experiment led by UC Berkeley researchers, biologists in Europe, the Middle East and U.S. planted 360 small plots of Arabidopsis (above) in various types of climates — from alpine ...