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Plant Care Tips for the Winter, According to Experts (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-09-26 07:39:00

Indoor plant care is always tricky. While it's all fine and dandy to take care of them when the summer sun is shining, keeping your plants alive in winter can feel like a whole ’nother story. Being a houseplant enthusiast is akin to having several silent children, all with finicky needs and limited ways of communicating them. If your green thumb is feeling a little yellow or brown these days, fear not! I interviewed several experts to figure out exactly how to keep your plants happy during the c

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New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-28 01:09:00

Lots of people are excited about the idea of using plants to help us draw down some of the excess carbon dioxide we've been pumping into the atmosphere. It would be nice to think that we could reforest our way out of the mess we're creating, but recent studies have indicated there's simply not enough productive land for this to work out. One alternative might be to get plants to take up carbon dioxide more efficiently. Unfortunately, the enzyme that incorporates carbon dioxide into photosynthes

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Chinese Scientists Create Bright, Multi-Colored Glowing Plants

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-08 20:15:38

Never to be outshone — literally, in this case — Chinese scientists have one-upped American researchers and their bioluminescent petunias with what they're calling world's first multi-colored glowing plants. As the journal Nature reports, this glow-in-the-dark succulent hails from the South China Agricultural University (SCAU) in Guangzhou, where materials researchers have developed a technology that recharges the plants via sunlight and makes them as bright as a night-light and with many of th

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Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours

news.ycombinator.com Bourzac 2025-10-10 23:34:36

University students might soon have something other than black-light posters to brighten their dorm rooms. Researchers have created glow-in-the-dark plants by injecting succulents with materials similar to those that make the posters light up. The fleshy plants shine as brightly as a night light, and can be made to do so in a wide variety of colours — a first for glowing houseplants, according to the team. Glow way! Bioluminescent houseplant hits US market for first time The researchers, led b

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You can't grow cool-climate plants in hot climates

news.ycombinator.com Joey Santore 2025-10-27 06:38:00

Since moving to Deep South Texas 4 years ago I've come to realize that many plants I used to love growing in the cool mild maritime climate of the SF bay area are impossible to grow where I live. This is not just because of the high daytime heat. It's not as simple as that. Specifically, it is the high heat during the night (and those warm nights are a direct result of the humidity) that causes cool-climate and cool-season plants to eventually die here. That's a bummer for somebody who loves pla

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New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 20:24:51

Robotics engineers at the University of Würzburg have developed a novel 3D laser scanner system for precise plant analysis in the field for the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy in Potsdam. Whether strawberries, asparagus or apples: when it comes to harvesting, skilled workers are often in short supply. Many researchers are therefore working on harvesting robots that could provide welcome support to agricultural businesses in the future. ‘There are already a few pro

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Too Hot Inside? These Houseplants Actually Help Beat the Heat

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-09 08:00:10

Looking for a smarter way to beat the summer heat without blasting your air conditioner all day? You might want to take a closer look at the houseplants sitting quietly on your windowsill. According to experts, certain indoor plants don't just brighten up a room, they can literally lower the temperature in your home. And yes, science backs it up. Thanks to a natural process called transpiration, some houseplants release moisture into the air, creating a cooling effect that can help your space f

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Gardeners Beware: Experts Warn These 9 Poisonous Flowers Might Be in Your Backyard

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 20:49:00

With summer now well and truly here, you're probably spending more time in your backyard or garden than you would through the rest of the year. The warmer weather also means that new plants and flowers are blooming, and all of that extra color is always welcome, right? But did you know that some plants aren't as safe as they might look? In fact, you might be surprised just how many common plants and flowers could be dangerous to you, your family and even your pets. In this article, we enlist the

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More Apple chips to be made in US as TSMC accelerates Arizona plants

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-11 04:41:55

More Apple chips are set to be made in the US as TSMC said it is busy accelerating the construction of its second and third Arizona plants, fulfilling a promise made back in March. The chipmaker is bringing more advanced processes to the US earlier than initially expected, allowing it to make chips for more recent Apple products … ‘Made in America’ Apple chips Apple first announced its plan for ‘Made in America’ chips back in 2022, with the news hailed as one of the success stories of the US

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Major US power operator says AI and data center demands are pushing prices up

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-24 03:00:30

PJM Interconnection (PJM) is the largest power grid operator in the US, serving 65 million customers across the District of Columbia and 13 states, namely Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. But this summer, some parts of PJM's power grid are expected to use so much electricity that people's bills for the summer are projected to be 20 percent higher than before, according to Reuters. Th

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There's no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Georgia Ray 2026-02-04 05:52:22

So you’ve heard about how fish aren’t a monophyletic group? You’ve heard about carcinization, the process by which ocean arthropods convergently evolve into crabs? You say you get it now? Sit down. Sit down. Shut up. Listen. You don’t know nothing yet. “Trees” are not a coherent phylogenetic category. On the evolutionary tree of plants, trees are regularly interspersed with things that are absolutely, 100% not trees. This means that, for instance, either: The common ancestor of a maple and a m

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AI is ruining houseplant communities online

theverge.com Nicole Froio 2026-02-20 12:00:00

“Maybe you could organize your plants like this,” my friend’s text message said, with an attached photo of white pots of plants floating midair in front of a huge, sunny window. As a newbie plant collector, I do need to organize my growing collection of flora, but not like this — the photo was AI-generated and the plants depicted were not real. Even as a beginner, I was able to identify issues with the photo. Obviously, my plants cannot physically defy gravity, but most egregiously, the organiz

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Bioengineered Tooth Implant That Grows Into Gum, Fuses With Nerves Performing Well in Animal Tests

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-13 15:00:27

Image by Jenna Schad / Tufts Developments Researchers have successfully implanted a bioengineered tooth implant — that "grows" into the gum and fuses with existing nerves — into the mouths of rats. In a new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, dental researchers from Tufts University detail their successful rodent experiments with the unique implant, which is coated in stem cells, special proteins, and memory foam-esque nanofibers that expand and integrate with the body's own ner

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Poop Transplants Not All They’re Cracked Up to Be

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-03-15 20:00:21

Fecal transplants have emerged as a potential treatment for a wide range of conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome, diabetes, and even depression. These so-called poop transplants have understandably received a lot of attention, but new research casts a bit of a wet blanket over the practice. The procedure involves taking microbes from the poop of a healthy person and transferring them into a patient’s colon. This should restore balance to their gut microbiome, but according to a study

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Experimental retina implants give mice infrared vision

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-18 04:08:21

Human vision relies on photoreceptor cells in the retina that react to visible light and trigger neurons in the optic nerve to send signals to the brain. Degradation of these photoreceptors is the leading cause of vision impairments, including blindness. However, a team of scientists at China’s Fudan University has recently built prototype retinal implants that can replace the failing photoreceptors and potentially provide infrared vision as a bonus. Sadly, they’ve only been tested in animals,

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The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants

wired.com Molly Taft 2026-03-18 04:36:25

The US Environmental Protection Agency moved to roll back emissions standards for power plants, the second-largest source of CO 2 emissions in the country, on Wednesday, claiming that the American power sector does not “contribute significantly” to air pollution. “The bottom line is that the EPA is trying to get out of the climate change business,” says Ryan Maher, a staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. The announcement comes just days after the National Oceanic and Atmospher

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EV battery manufacturing capacity will rise when 10 plants come online this year

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-11 10:15:45

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Ten new electric vehicle battery factories are on track to go online this year in the United States. This includes large plants from global battery giants such as Panasonic, Samsung, and SK On, and automakers such as Ford, Honda, Hyundai, Stellantis, and Toyota. If they all open in 2025, the country’s EV batte

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Latest Tech News

Plant Care Tips for the Winter, According to Experts (2025)

New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

Chinese Scientists Create Bright, Multi-Colored Glowing Plants

Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours

You can't grow cool-climate plants in hot climates

New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots

Too Hot Inside? These Houseplants Actually Help Beat the Heat

Gardeners Beware: Experts Warn These 9 Poisonous Flowers Might Be in Your Backyard

More Apple chips to be made in US as TSMC accelerates Arizona plants

Major US power operator says AI and data center demands are pushing prices up

There's no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) (2021)

AI is ruining houseplant communities online

Bioengineered Tooth Implant That Grows Into Gum, Fuses With Nerves Performing Well in Animal Tests

Poop Transplants Not All They’re Cracked Up to Be

Experimental retina implants give mice infrared vision

The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants

EV battery manufacturing capacity will rise when 10 plants come online this year

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