Squirrels. With their bushy tails and irreverent leaps, they've stolen GoPros, outsmarted bird feeders and even caused ...

Experimental evolution is the use of laboratory or controlled field manipulations to investigate evolutionary processes. It usually makes use of organisms with rapid generation times and small ...

Buying plants and seeds online is not only convenient but you’ll often find varieties that aren’t available at garden centres and you can shop from companies that specialise in a particular kind of ...

In the last few blogs I have highlighted two different methods of seed dispersal: myremochory (via ants and eliasome) and epizoochory (via animals). Remember, the sole purpose of a plant and its seeds ...

One of its recent experiments involved growing cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) seeds within a controlled, closed environment equipped with active thermal management, said ISRO. Leaves have emerged!

The space agency sent eight cowpea seeds as part of the Compact Research Module for Orbital Plant Studies (CROPS) experiment conducted by the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) to study plant growth ...

The seeds, part of the PSLV-C60 POEM-4 mission, sprouted within four days, underlining the potential for sustaining plant life during extended space missions. As part of the Vikram Sarabhai Space ...

In a significant development, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully germinated cowpea seeds in microgravity environment during the agency's POEM-4 mission. The experiment ...