Every summer, the same family of plants – apples, roses, cherries, blackberries – faces the same brutal math: pull water…
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The Two Lives of an Onion
Inside every onion cell, thousands of microscopic tunnels are making decisions that will determine how fast the plant grows, how…
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The Cactus That Drinks Fog: How a Tiny Endangered Cactus Engineers Its Own Water Supply
A critically endangered cactus has quietly solved one of the hardest problems in engineering – collecting water from thin air…
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Trees Never Forget a Drought
On a hillside in southern France, a poplar tree is doing something scientists are only beginning to understand. It is,…
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A Piece of Cardboard Is Bringing Precision Farming to the Farmers Who Need It Most
How a cardboard card and a free app are bringing precision agriculture within reach of every farmer on earth Here…
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The Underground Trade-Off: What We Lost When We Bred Better Soybeans
New research reveals that decades of breeding for bigger yields may have cost soybean plants their ability to adapt their…
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