Cybernetic Venus flytrap anyone? MIT researchers create plants that are part machine, all awesome, and could one day even be turned into living gas detectors. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about ...

Plants have many valuable functions: They provide food and fuel, release the oxygen that we breathe, and add beauty to our surroundings. Now, researchers wants to make plants even more useful by ...

With few exceptions, every single plant on this planet can convert light energy into chemical energy. And they do a pretty good job of this, even though they only use about 10 percent of the sunlight ...

Popeye was right when it came to the health benefits of spinach, but that simple sailor man couldn’t have predicted this unorthodox use of the superfood. Researchers at MIT have found a way to use ...

Plants have many valuable functions: They provide food and fuel, release the oxygen that we breathe, and add beauty to our surroundings. Now, a team of MIT researchers wants to make plants even more ...

Researchers at MIT have boosted the photosynthetic power of plants by a factor of three after injecting them with specialized nanoparticles. In the future, these biologically uplifted plants could be ...

Most people already understand what makes plants such an important part of the environment — by absorbing light and carbon, they’re able to photosynthesize, releasing fresh oxygen into the atmosphere ...

From your childhood dinner table to “Popeye,” spinach has long had the image of a healthy superfood that will make you strong. Now it turns out, with a little scientific engineering, the vegetable ...

Bionic plants that can detect explosives in real time could be the future of environmental monitoring and urban farming, researchers said in a new study. The spinach plants have carbon-nanotube-based ...

Researchers at MIT are giving plants super powers by placing tiny carbon nanotubes deep within their cells. Some of the altered plants increased their photosynthetic activity by 30% compared with ...

Nanomaterials can enable plants with novel and augmented functions. This Arabidopsis plant with carbon nanotubes inside its leaves has augmented light energy capture and could act as a photonic ...