Throughout the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, American schools emphasized practical learning. Teachers encouraged students to experiment, observe, and sometimes even fail in order to understand scientific ...

Paco Calvo, a researcher at Spain’s University of Murcia, is on a mission. According to New Scientist, he’s attempting to build a solid scientific framework for understanding “plant neurobiology,” ...

Plants generate signals across many scales, from molecular activity to whole-plant physiology, that can now be measured, analyzed, and modeled with computational tools. This interdisciplinary course ...

In a greenhouse on a narrow mesa top at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I’m working with a research team studying the role of the soil microbiome in how maize grows and tolerates drought. As the ...