A number of plants disperse their seeds in a rather artistic way: the seed capsules of the ice plant Delosperma nakurense, for instance, unfold lids over the seed compartments in the manner of a ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech and Clemson collaborate to produce robotic sensors that mimic the characteristics of plants for optimal environmental monitoring “When I started to venture into robotics a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A British inventor has designed a unique range of origami which he is now exporting - to Japan. Andrew Flynn, 32, has created the ...

image: Robert Minto, Ph.D., is an associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. view more INDIANAPOLIS -- Plants ...

A Scottish designer has secured a distribution deal in Japan for the world’s first self-watering origami plant pot. The art of paper folding is believed to have become popular in the Asian country ...

Plants produce countless kinds of compounds, also known as natural products, that the plants manufacture using the enzymes predetermined by their genetic code. Many of these natural products are very ...