Where they live: Plants are found on every continent, even Antarctica, and every ocean. What they eat: Plants use sunlight for photosynthesis, which produces sugars that fuel them. Plants are an ...

The love for houseplants keeps growing and growing and it's no surprise-as the benefits extend far beyond the aesthetics. The ...

The Moon has no breathable oxygen – which obviously presents a hurdle for astronauts. There’s only so much we can take with us, so figuring out how to produce it there is crucial. Now, ESA researchers ...

Ancient horsetail plants produce water with unusual oxygen isotopes, offering scientists a new tool to reconstruct Earth’s ...

Plants have an extraordinary ability to sense tissue damage and quickly rebuild their protective outer layers, a process ...

Earth is, by all measures, a giant solar panel. The sun provides us warmth and light of course, but its light also fires the engine that manufactures the basis of life on Earth for everything: food ...

The Chuquiraga jussieui, otherwise known as the "flower of the Andes," an endangered flower that grows 3,000 to 5,000 feet above sea level. (CN) — Just how plants adapt to higher altitudes has been ...

Earth's atmosphere wasn't always full of life-giving oxygen — it was once a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and other gases, more like the atmosphere of Mars or Venus. It's widely believed that the ...

As COVID-19-related hospitalizations rise in Hawaii, health officials worry that the demand for medical oxygen will exceed what the islands are able to produce. Since the beginning of August, the ...

The Lagos State Government has activated an oxygen plant within the premises of the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH), Yaba to provide urgent support to COVID-19 patients, who require oxygen therapy.