Those plants were grown at 22–23°C under white light provided by fluorescent lamps under continuous-light conditions (Kinoshita and Tsukaya, 2018). The light intensity was ∼45 μmol m –2 s –1.

Basil, lavender and rosemary are wonderful herbs that not only taste great but also will keep the flies away. Basil ...

Climate change is silently sapping the nutrients from our food. A pioneering study finds that rising CO2 and higher ...

Fiber-based optical antennas are useful for efficient light reception at the receiver in visible light communication (VLC) systems. It combines the principles of fiber optics and antenna technology to ...

New preliminary research suggests that a combination of higher atmospheric CO2 and hotter temperatures contribute to a ...

Here we report on a bioresorbable fluorescence sensor for in vivo pH monitoring. The sensor leverages a nanometer-thick multilayer stack of polyelectrolytes labelled with a pH-insensitive fluorophore ...

Tools to address PFAS pollution are limited. Here's what researchers are learning about how these chemicals travel through ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a unique luminescent probe that uses terbium, a rare earth metal, to sense the presence of an enzyme called β-glucuronidase, which ...

Conventional aromatic compounds tend to exhibit the formation of sandwich-shaped excimers and exciplexes between their excited and ground states at high concentrations or in their aggregated states, ...

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI), renowned for its high spatial resolution and deep tissue penetration, holds great promise for disease diagnosis and molecular detection. However, the performance of ...

German firm accelerates race for world’s first nuclear fusion plant with funding boost A large part of the new funding will go towards achieving specific engineering and development goals.