Glowing trees that can replace street lights and spinach that can send out emails to warn of approaching danger sounds like the stuff of fantasy. But a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Purdue physics professor Yulia Pushkar (left) and postdoctoral researcher Lifen Yan work in Pushkar's laser lab. Pushkar and Yan are part of an international team using spinach to study the proteins ...

Solar power is nothing new under the sun. Plants have been doing it since photosynthesis first evolved more than 3.5 billion years ago. But scientists are taking a cue from the experts by borrowing ...