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Credit: Sergey Dyakov et al./Optica Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have uncovered an intricate light manipulation ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE from the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOJuly 30, 2025Researchers identify protein that evolved to enable land plants to thriveTORONTO, ON ...
I love zinnias. They are one of my favorite flowers. I interplant long rows of zinnias with my pumpkin and squash plants every year. Last year, as I was weeding the rows, I noticed a plant that had a ...
Canada’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale is filled with “monsters”: bio-printed armatures supporting micro-organisms that ...
Evolutionary plant biologists at the University of Toronto have identified a protein that evolved approximately 500 million ...
Considering wildfires, and prevailing winds blowing from Canada, are expected to become more frequent, the impact on crops ...
When marine scientists gave Sydney Harbor seawalls a colorful glow up, they discovered it boosted marine biodiversity along ...
"As this type of technology develops, it's going to have spinoff benefits for sustainability technology here on Earth as well ...
In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...
Proteins are constantly moving, but our structures of them are static. Clare Sansom talks to the researchers using free-electron lasers to make time-resolved structures ...
From rooftop greenhouses to subterranean growth chambers, plant research facilities on the University of Toronto’s historic ...
Recently unearthed fossils from the Cambrian period shed light on a key stage of evolution, when life became much more ...