hope to create a smart greenhouse, one that manipulates sunlight to grow plants faster and with less energy. The project grew out of a discussion Natalie Ronayne had with her boss nearly two years ago ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Baking soda and vinegar are everyday products we have in our households, right? Well today our weather experiment will combine them to help us learn about greenhouse gases. An exploding ...

For me, gardening in an 8-by-8-foot woven plastic greenhouse has been both humbling and rewarding. Humbling because crops don't always perform there the way I expect they will; rewarding because some ...

While virtual learning certainly has its place in research, sometimes the call of the field, the lab or the greenhouse is too strong. Gioffre took part in a busy summer of science, working on two ...

Questions: Predicting when invasive species will affect ecosystem functioning remains problematic, with strong contingency upon both the invasive species and the recipient community's identities.

Ecologists have measured plant-soil feedbacks for six perennial prairie grass species in a short-term greenhouse study, and say their findings do not match outcomes observed in long-term experiment ...