Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – and how it may change in future climates.

Plants store carbon in two primary forms: starch and triacylglycerols (TAGs). Starch is mainly stored in chloroplasts in ...

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Some plants have evolved with large leaves to maximise the amount of light they can absorb, often found under forest canopies ... If you had a microscope, you would be able to see this even ...

In hopes of seeing why a peppercorn tastes peppery, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) soaked one in water and put it under a ... electron microscope, then enhanced the plants’ parts with ...

Plant cells crammed with chloroplasts ... It can magnify in incredible detail. This is a leaf surface under a scanning electron microscope. Both types of electron microscopes make black-and ...