Biologist Hope Jahren has studied plants for more than two decades, but the seeds of her love of science were planted early. Her father was a scientist and even though she didn’t see many women in the ...

Scientists have already figured out how to grow meat in a lab, nurturing animal cells to multiply into chicken cutlets and burger patties. Now, MIT researchers are hoping to do the same with wood, to ...

Chile is home to the rare soapbark tree, known in the scientific community as Quillaja saponaria. These evergreens, which can stand 15 to 20 m tall and take a quarter of a century to mature, are by no ...

Editor’s note: The Lab Report is a weekly series in The Badger Herald’s print edition where we take a deep dive into the (research) lives of students and professors outside the classroom The Maeda Lab ...

Chopping down trees and processing the wood isn’t the most efficient or environmentally friendly way to make furniture or building materials. Scientists at MIT have now made breakthroughs in a process ...

A common lab plant that’s been poked and put under microscopes for decades may seem unlikely to keep secrets. But in widely studied Arabidopsis thaliana, scientists have identified the “cantil” — a ...

Cultured meat could overtake plant-based alternatives like Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger as early as 2040, according to a new report. The research, from consultancy firm AT Kearney, finds that ...