Plants are extremely sensitive to lengths of nights and days and use the information to keep track of seasons, information crucial to their life cycles.
How Plants Know the Difference Between Night and Day
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NASA Finds Tropical Depression Bailu Forms East of Philippines
NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and captured an image of newly developed Tropical Depression Bailu, east of the Philippines.
Study Identifies Main Culprit Behind Lithium Metal Battery Failure
A research team led by the University of California San Diego has discovered the root cause of why lithium metal batteries fail—bits of lithium metal deposits break off from the surface of the anode during discharging and are trapped as “dead” or inactive lithium that the battery can no longer access.
BYU Scientists Discover Way to Make Crops Grow in Salt-Damaged Soil
A group of BYU researchers may have found a way to reverse falling crop yields caused by increasingly salty farmlands throughout the world.
NASA Sees a Lopsided Atlantic Tropical Storm Chantal Form
NASA’s Aqua satellite provided a view of newly formed Tropical Storm Chantal in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Shocking Rate of Plant Extinctions in South Africa
New research has confirmed the extinction of 79 plants in South Africa's three biodiversity hotspots – namely the Cape Floristic Region, the Succulent Karoo, and the Maputuland-Pondoland-Albany corridor.
