As a child, University of Wisconsin student Kai Nakano Rasmussen had big dreams of becoming an astronaut one day. He now lives out his dreams, but in a very different way — by sending plants into ...

Plants are such a ubiquitous aspect of life—its very foundation, really—that you may rarely think about their scientific research. Botany has the potential to bear fruit in so many fields that affect ...

Dr. Ewers's Laboratory investigates how plants control energy flows and mass cycles at scales ranging from organs to landscapes. His lab group uses a variety of tools in their investigations including ...

LILIAN J. CLARKE entered on her career as science mistress at James Allen's Girls' School, Dulwich, in 1896, at a time when science was still the Cinderella of the curriculum; long before her ...

IT was the intention of the author to complete this work in six volumes, but unhappily he was not spared to see the scheme accomplished. However, three excellent volumes, full of useful and ...

The greenhouse is used as teaching and research facility for the Connecticut College botany and ecology classes. It is staffed by arboretum personnel. Built in 1935 under a grant from the Rockefeller ...

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