Plants and trees may seem pretty passive, but behind the scenes, their cells are working hard to put on a magic show. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how the processes of ...

Montana State University has long been a hub for research on the many unique features of nearby Yellowstone National Park, and now a doctoral student in one of the university's microbiology ...

If your lungs are working properly, you probably don’t think about them all that much. They’re pink. There are two of them. Smoking makes them sad. What else is there, really? Well, did you know your ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

ITHACA (WBNG) -- Cornell University launched the nation’s first “animal respiration stall” or chamber to accurately measure methane gas emitted from cows. On Tuesday, officials told 12 News that the ...

The development of the electrophrenic respirator by Sarnoff and Whittenberger at the Harvard School of Public Health has introduced both a means of therapeusis and a device for studying some of the ...

ALL the recent work on cell respiration and nutrition leads to the conclusion that a real similarity exists between these processes in the plant and animal organisms. This being the case, it would ...

Antoine Lavoisier gave oxygen its name, from the Greek words for “acid-former.” But that wasn’t his only contribution to scientific understanding of what it does. Born August 26, 1743, Lavoisier “is ...