NASA Harvest scientists use satellite observations and economic data to track how the Russia-Ukraine conflict is disrupting the global food system.
A friend’s close look at a reclusive physicist and his community.
There can be no one unifying theory, writes Prof Jonathan Bard, while Nicholas Maxwell looks to the role of purposive actions and Pete Bibby says the fittest theory will survive
A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists – and the conflict may determine the future of biology
They say that variety is the spice of life. This is especially true for Sattari farmer Dhiraj Bhide, who has successfully grown a unique pepper variety.
The monsoon accounts for around 70 per cent of the country's annual rainfall and irrigates 60 per cent of its net sown area. Nearly half of the population depends on agriculture directly or indirectly. A bad monsoon invariably means bad crop production.
That’s one small stem for a plant, one giant leap for plant science.
Researchers have developed a low-cost gel film that can pull water from the air in even dry climates like the desert.
From knife cuts to animal bites to torrents of rain, every touch that a plant gets leads to a defensive molecular response – although these responses can be quite varied.
Meet the “hedgehog,” a newly found feature on the sun that appears to radiate spiky jets of cooler gas against a background of hotter plasma.
There’s nothing fundamentally new to the idea of extracting power from temperature differences.
