While expanding nuclear energy production would provide carbon-free power and can help countries around the world meet their climate goals, nuclear energy could also come with some inherent risk.

The sooner a farmer knows that their crops are suffering, the faster they can take action to prevent major crop failure. A new plant-leaf-poking sensor could soon help them do so, by sending an alert ...

Botanical sensors are turning greenery into living data networks while monitoring plant health and optimizing yields.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American Chemical Society developed an innovative plant detector that empowers farmers and home gardeners by helping them ...

A Purdue University professor has built an innovative handheld sensor that gives plant scientists and farmers a more precise way of measuring the health of crops while gathering up-to-the-minute data ...

Scientists from the Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) research group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research ...

If like me your plants could do with a little help to stay alive, you might be interested in a new planned water sensor aptly named SmartyPlants. Which can help you keep your plants healthy by ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The continuous increase of human population and environmental stresses increases the requirements for improving plant productivity and ecosystem balance. However, the emergence of ...

If a plant has unusually low levels of pigments known as carotenoids, for instance, it may be suffering from shade avoidance syndrome – this occurs when shaded plants grow tall and spindly in order to ...

I love to garden, though I will admit to having killed some beautiful plants in my yard simply because I forgot to water them or I didn’t realize they were getting too much sunshine. Parrot’s Flower ...

To feed the world's burgeoning population, producers must grow crops in more challenging terrain – where plant roots must cope with barriers. To that end, Cornell University physicists and Boyce ...