Evolution imbued ants with an agriculture strategy that optimizes food rewards.

From bubbling plants to endangered whales, here are some amazing images from The Scientist in 2019.

Plants use two different strategies to photosynthesize underwater.

Researchers devise a way to make plants’ stomata open and close more quickly.

Arabidopsis with guard cells modified by a light-activated potassium ion channel can open and close stomata more quickly, conserving water.

Microbes that dwell in nutrient-poor waters use a photopigment called retinal to harvest energy from sunshine at levels at least equal to those stored by chlorophyll-based systems.

Microbiologists identify diatoms, algae, and cyanobacteria species from samples above a mountaintop in France.

From the remarkable speed of enzyme-catalyzed reactions to the workings of the human brain, numerous biological puzzles are now being explored for evidence of quantum effects.

Weird effects on the scale of subatomic particles may play roles in enzyme catalysis, photosynthesis, and avian magnetoreception.