I have spent my life interpreting capitalism in order to build an alternative By David Harvey In November 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis, Queen Elizabeth visited the London School ...

As sessile, photoautotrophic organisms, plants are subjected to fluctuating sunlight that includes potentially detrimental ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation. Experiments under controlled conditions have ...

Arousal may be understood on a spectrum, with excessive sleepiness, cognitive dysfunction, and inattention on one side, a wakeful state in the middle, and hypervigilance, panic, and psychosis on the ...

The positive effect of soil organic matter (SOM) on crop yield has historically been attributed to the ability of SOM to supply crops with nitrogen and water. Whether management-induced increases in ...

Results from 54 independent European-ancestry studies, totaling 150 134 individuals, were included in the stage 1 meta-analysis: AGES (n=3215), ARIC (n=9402), ASPS (n ...

Improving the efficiency of root systems should result in crop varieties with better yields, requiring fewer chemical inputs, and that can grow in harsher environments. Little is known about the ...

In the elongation zone of the Arabidopsis thaliana plant root, cells undergo rapid elongation, increasing their length by ∼10-fold over 5 h while maintaining a constant radius. Although progress is ...