Cybernetic Venus flytrap anyone? MIT researchers create plants that are part machine, all awesome, and could one day even be turned into living gas detectors. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances discusses how carnivorous plants inspire smart slippery surfaces and bionic robots. Carnivorous plants have inspired innovations of advanced ...

Nanomaterials can enable plants with novel and augmented functions. This Arabidopsis plant with carbon nanotubes inside its leaves has augmented light energy capture and could act as a photonic ...

Michael Strano set off hydrogen-fueled rockets as a kid. Today his lab is developing nanosensors, bionic plants, nanoscale ice wires, and a brand-new source of energy. If you know of any MIT alumni ...

Perched atop a bluff overlooking the Pacific in La Jolla, Calif., the greenhouses where Joanne Chory’s plants are growing seem a touch extravagant for Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering piece of ...

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