Plants make excellent metaphors. Seeds can wait years for the right sprouting conditions; saplings strive for light; trees form symbiotic relationships with other organisms and struggle to reproduce.

Geobiologist Hope Jahren's memoir "Lab Girl" will be the next Tosa All-City Read, organizers announced Wednesday. A Minnesota native, Jahren is a professor at the University of Oslo in Norway. Her ...

The eyes of the scientific community are often fixated on the flash and thrill of those disciplines that are seen as sexy or which make for good publicity — namely, all things relating to space ...

In her memoir Lab Girl, geobiologist Hope Jahren unlocks the secrets of plants: “The first real leaf is a new idea…it has to work harder than everything above it, all the while enduring a misery of ...

Biologist Hope Jahren has studied plants for more than two decades, but the seeds of her love of science were planted early. Her father was a scientist and even though she didn’t see many women in the ...

When geobiologist Hope Jahren sat down to describe the results of her research, she found that she couldn’t relate her findings without discussing the people who made them possible, herself especially ...

Lab Girl, paleobiologist Hope Jahren’s coming-of-age memoir, is the UCSB Reads selection for the 2018 season. In the book, Jahren “traces her path from an early infatuation with the natural world to ...

“Lab Girl”, the powerful new memoir of a female scientist — geobiologist Hope Jahren — on life and love. Geobiologist Hope Jahren is the author of a new memoir about her life and work, "Lab Girl." ...