If you have a penchant for unusual plants, you may have heard of the ... what makes these perennials unique – they turn ...

Japanese researchers have devised a way to find out: Make the plant transparent. With a chemical bath, they reduce the plant’s visible chlorophyll, the pigment that makes it green. Days to weeks ...

Advances in transparent solar cells mean that soon we might be able to install them into windows and greenhouses. But in the latter case, would they deprive plants of vital sunlight? To find out ...

The result: A dynamic, porous, and transparent soil that allowed for the unobstructed 3D imaging of living plants and soil-based microorganisms. It’s hoped that the insights gleaned from the ...

The rhizosphere is the living ecosystem around plant roots. It is a dynamic ecosystem ... Scientists have developed a rhizosphere-on-a-chip with a transparent, simulated soil structure that ...

A new transparent soil is helping to reveal the secrets what happens to plant roots as they grow. A team of researchers from the James Hutton Institute and the University of Abertay Dundee have ...

In an agrivoltaic study, UCLA engineers put a semi-transparent solar roof on a greenhouse, and some unexpected things happened with both the roof and the plants. The researchers at UCLA Samueli ...

The roots of plants are a pain to study because it is ... partly cracked the problem when they developed transparent soil. Now they have teamed with imaging specialists at the University of ...