Cicadas, an Elixir for the Earth
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Those buzzing hordes of cicadas that come up from underground every 13 or 17 years may be a nuisance for people, but for birds and small animals they are an all-you-can-eat buffet.
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The parasitic larvae of the Alcon blue butterfly mimic the chemical signature of not one, but two ant species.
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Researchers worldwide are collecting seeds from wild plants to guard against the ravages of climate change.
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By Nash, Steve  Biofuel's the thing, the new universal solvent, the energy elixir, the great wet hope. Your next car-or maybe the one after- could run on corn, or soybeans, or old pizza boxes.
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Researchers have harnessed the light harvesting molecules of spinach and bacteria to make solar cells that could one day be sprayed on many surfaces.
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A study of the humble fruit fly may hold the key to new treatments for human liver diseases and diabetes.
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Chemists unveil a type of material that could eventually help power plants generate electricity without emissions.
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Vegetation thrives on moisture and when you add an increase of nitrogen and complements of lightning, the greenery gets even greener. The May issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports poison ivy is expected to get a lot itchier because of global warming.
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At the Brookfield Zoo, cicadas are a lot more than just really noisy insects: They're delicious. These days, a host of animals from bearded dragon lizards to African wild dogs to white-crested laughing thrush birds are enjoying cicadas.
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Researchers are goading tiny organisms like bacteria and algae into producing fuels like hydrogen and methane. The process is not useful yet, but the technology could be a solution to the energy problem. By Amit Asaravala.
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This summer's emergence of trillions of periodical cicadas may be over, but the science arising from Brood X's dessicated carcasses has just begun.
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A solar cell made with spinach has been developed that promises electronic devices incorporating photosynthesis, the highly efficient process plants use to produce energy from sunlight.
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That appears to be the conclusion of research in this week&#39;s issue of Science that assesses the effects of 17-year periodical cicadas on forest ecology.
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An electronic device that uses spinach to convert light into electrical charge has been developed by US researchers. Shuguang Zhang at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, and research collaborators
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Environmentally friendly flowers are a hard sell. After all, most people donât eat them.
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SYDNEY, Australia - With the aroma of "overripe Camembert cheese on a bed of roadkill" a rare example of the world's largest flower burst into bloom Thursday in a Sydney hothouse.    Visitors to Sydney's Botanical Gardens have described the scent of the Titan Arum, also known as Amorphophallus titanum, as like a room full of smelly socks, fish rotting, wet carpet, or a rotten banana...
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A new spectrometer lets scientists learn more about the planet's chemistry.