Cornell University researchers have created the world's first synthetic tree. So far, it's a very small 'tree' which stands in a palm-sized piece of hydrogel. This 'tree simulates the process of ...

Transpiration: The process by which water in plants moves through leaf pores and is released into the atmosphere as water vapor. Actively growing plants release so much water vapor that dry air masses ...

An e-mail from Clinton wants to know about transpiration. Transpiration is simply a release of water vapor by plants and it's a big part of the overall water cycle. The water cycle is mother nature's ...

TWO paper by Sir Francis Darwin (Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, vol. Ixxxvii.) mark an important advance in the study of the process of transpiration in plants. Hitherto, although transpiration ...