A date palm seedling can pause its development to boost its resilience before emerging into the harsh desert environment.

An integrated system seamlessly harnesses sunlight to cogenerate electricity and fresh water.

Insect-inspired design principles lead to first-ever water-repellent membranes made from water-wet materials.

A biohybrid material that combines reduced graphene oxide with bacterial cells offers an eco-friendly option to help store renewable energy.

Accelerating plant evolution with CRISPR paves the way for breeders to engineer new crop varieties.

Global water challenges addressed through improvements to desalination techniques and limits to waste.

Protein found in gut-dwelling pathogens changes shape under human body temperatures, leading to toxins responsible for diarrheal disease.

New app aims to improve the statistical analysis of large datasets in plant science and beyond.

New experimental insights allow researchers to probe protein-DNA interactions with greater precision.

Sediment libraries show marine ecosystems are accumulating oil pollution faster than ever.

Genome editing techniques have the power to transform crop yields and plant resilience to feed the growing global population.

Macroalgae is shown to be a major global contributor to carbon sequestration.

Corals use sugar from their symbiotic algal partners to control them by recycling nitrogen from their own ammonium waste.

Accounting for the quality of energy needed to run a desalination plant shows benefits of using waste heat.

A Professor of Marine Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has received the 2019 Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology from the Generalitat of Catalonia.

Cultivated date palms have co-evolved with desert bacteria for so long that their roots attract the microbes that provide the best chance for a long and healthy life.

Microplastics in the water column are ingested by clams and become attached to their shells.

When a thin layer of water is squeezed between two hydrophobic surfaces, the laws of classical physics break down.

The dynamics behind microbial communities in granular-based wastewater treatment systems.

The colonization of tomato plants with a beneficial desert root fungus protects against effects of salt stress.