In 1872, a Nebraska newspaper editor and tree lover named J. Sterling Morton proposed dedicating a day to planting trees in ...

Plants can add privacy and screening to gardens and can cover up broken fence panels, tired-looking sheds and stained walls. However, gardeners will need to make sure they choose the right plants ...

Flowering is an important event in a plant’s life cycle, and in many species ... structure of DVRs to develop compounds with greater activity and specificity. We expect the results of these ...

Frozen plant material (leaf) was ground using pre-cooled mortar and ... based on the concentrations obtained from the Qubit™ 2.0 fluorometer (Invitrogen, Life Technologies, Grand Island, NY). We ...

While many of these strikes seem random, they serve an essential function in the nitrogen cycle, one of the key processes that sustain plant life ... balance of storm activity can replenish ...

The soil environment determines plants’ health and performance during their life cycle. Therefore, ecological understanding on variations in soil environments, including physical, chemical, and ...

For older children, you can extend the activity by adding in extra stages, such as pollination and photosynthesis. First, you need to divide each paper plate into four sections. On one plate, draw ...

The water cycle is an amazing process that we started to talk about when discussing evaporation a couple of weeks ago. In this simple science activity, children make ... some is taken up by and used ...