A scientist is using food waste to turn ultraviolet radiation into electricity with his AuREUS solar panels, making clean energy more accessible and giving farms a way to mitigate losses — while also ...

A recent study used MRI to find an association between sleep loss and diminished antioxidant capacity in teens.

Researchers from HSE University and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences analyzed seven years of ...

Moss is known as a plant that can thrive in extreme environments on Earth, such as the Himalayas, deserts, Antarctic tundra, ...

So, they sent some sporophytes to the ISS. Astronauts affixed the samples to the station's exterior, where they remained for ...

The moss species Physcomitrium patens is the latest organism to survive an extended stay in the vacuum and radiation of space.

In 2005, scientists announced that moss could grow inside of spaceships. The little plants the scientists sent up on NASA ...

US-Italy researchers have used quantum-mechanical simulations to resolve a decades-old puzzle about how ultraviolet ...

When ultraviolet light hits ice—whether in Earth's polar regions or on distant planets—it triggers a cascade of chemical ...

Moss spores exposed on exterior of International Space Station remained viable after prolonged exposure to harsh space ...

To see, Fujita’s team turned to Physcomitrium patens, a well-studied species moss commonly called spreading earthmoss. They ...