DURHAM — With the experience of managing bee colonies with his grandmother, 10-year-old Jason Blake of Rosedale Elementary School had the winning word in mind. He spelled it out, “S-T-A-M-E-N,” and he ...

Abiotic factors are non-living chemical and physical elements in the environment, which affect individual organisms as well as ecosystems. Examples are UV, IR and visible light, radiation, temperature ...

Accurate simulation of crop growth processes for predicting final yield is critical for optimizing resource management, particularly in regions with variable climates and limited resource availability ...

Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, Great Britain ...

Naturally fluorescent polymeric molecules such as collagen, resilin, cutin, suberin, or lignin can serve as renewable sources of bioproducts. Theoretical physics predicts that the fluorescence ...