Tag: "plants"
Plant Proteins Power Solar Panel
Simplifying the production of bio-solar cells using many different plants could bring power to the developing world. It could be a whole new way to DIY solar.
Post on Feb 22, 2012 by Melissae Fellet from QUEST Northern California
Flowers to Pharmacy
The nation's first hospital in Philadelphia culled its archives to create a collection of medical and botanical texts from the 18th and early 19th century.
Post on Dec 09, 2011 by Taunya English from QUEST Philadelphia
Herbicides: Help or Harm?
Recent headlines have brought to light some of herbicides’ unintended effects. Herbicides can provide farmers and gardeners with advantages over unwanted weeds—but they also come with drawbacks.
Post on Jul 20, 2011 by Jennifer Skene from QUEST Northern California
15 Months Later, Rediscovered San Francisco Plant Thrives
Fifteen months after a native plant thought to be extinct was rediscovered in San Francisco, local botanists have succeeded in growing it and are making plans to plant it out in the wild.
Post on Jan 19, 2011 by Gabriela Quirós
Mistletoe: Friend or Foe?
Have you been hanging out under the mistletoe at holiday parties, hoping for a kiss? Well, that mistletoe is more than a Christmas kissing custom. It’s a parasite that can harm trees—and a potential treatment for cancer.
Post on Dec 20, 2010 by Jennifer Skene
Tiny Lichen Point to Bigger Pollution Problems in Yosemite
Air pollution may seem like an urban problem, but it’s becoming an increasing concern in California’s national parks.
Post on Oct 29, 2010 by Lauren Sommer
Home Sweet Serpentine
Serpentine soil is a tough environment, but some unique plants and animals call it home.
Post on Aug 16, 2010 by Jennifer Skene
Reporter's Notes: Building an Artificial Leaf
When I began this story, it seemed pretty simple. I'd heard that scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab were working to mimic photosynthesis and create a man-made version of the process that could supply us with renewable energy.
Post on Nov 20, 2009 by Lauren Sommer
The World's Largest Seed
Last Thursday, February 12th, was the inaugural evening of NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences, a weekly science evening for adults. It was also Charles Darwin's 200th birthday. To honor the father of evolution, Academy researchers unveiled Darwin's Carnival, a collection of curious specimens brought out from our collections, including Botany, Ornithology & Mammalogy, Entomology, Herpetology, Invertebrate Zoology, Geology, and the Library Archives.
Post on Feb 19, 2009 by Cat
Reporter's Notes: Disappearing Plants
Marin will look Baja. Berkeley like Bakersfield. That's the projection of climatologists for the end of this century, if global warming continues on its current path.
Post on Jul 25, 2008 by David Gorn
Producer's Notes - MAKE it at Home: Table-Top Biosphere
Do-it-yourself tabletop biosphere..Last season, QUEST TV went on a field trip to the Maker Faire to see some of the wacky do-it-yourself things coming out of people’s garage work shops. This season, we took Quest Radio Editor Andrea Kissack out to the Make Magazine Test Lab to tinker and experiment with some of our favorite [...]
Post on Apr 15, 2008 by Chris Bauer
Spring Dating Tips from the Plant Kingdom
It's almost spring: time for sultry nights, birds, bees, renewal and the sweet promise of new love. For us humans, that might mean flirty skirts, a new perfume, a dapper new hat or hip hair cut, all in the hopes of attracting a new, or very old and loyal, perfect mate. Plants also feel the [...]
Post on Mar 12, 2008 by Amy Gotliffe
