In each new season, the bioscience team at azcentral.com examines a new element of scientific research to show you what it means for how we live today.
Season one is all about “weird science.” You’ll find fish that swim in the desert, tiny insects in cage matches and robots that talk to plants. It all sounds pretty strange.
But behind some of their weirdest scientific experiments, researchers are learning some things that are life-and-death serious. The changing climate, the future of degenerative neurological diseases, the future of human life itself ... some of it might someday depend on these weird cases.
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In each new season, the bioscience team at azcentral.com examines a new element of scientific research to show you what it means for how we live today.
Season one is all about “weird science.” You’ll find fish that swim in the desert, tiny insects in cage matches and robots that talk to plants. It all sounds pretty strange.
But behind some of their weirdest scientific experiments, researchers are learning some things that are life-and-death serious. The changing climate, the future of degenerative neurological diseases, the future of human life itself ... some of it might someday depend on these weird cases.
In a greenhouse on top of a parking garage and in a field in the middle of the desert, a team of scientists and engineers have a mission.
They want to talk to plants.
To do it, teams at the University of Arizona have enlisted the help of robots big and small, from a thirty-ton robotic field scanner to tiny sensors that can measure the organic compounds emitted from leaves. They collect enough data to fill thousands of hard drives and turn it into a virtual reality field they can enter on the computer.
But why go to all that trouble? What are plants saying that researchers are so keen to hear?
Join us, and travel into the heart of the machine – and onto the front lines of the climate crisis.
You can find out more about the world’s largest robotic field scanalyzer here.
Learn more about Bt cotton and using GMO crops to eradicate pests in our story from The Arizona Republic.
Read more of our reporting on bioengineering plants to survive drought and heat stress.
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The Lab at azcentral
In each new season, the bioscience team at azcentral.com examines a new element of scientific research to show you what it means for how we live today.
Season one is all about “weird science.” You’ll find fish that swim in the desert, tiny insects in cage matches and robots that talk to plants. It all sounds pretty strange.
But behind some of their weirdest scientific experiments, researchers are learning some things that are life-and-death serious. The changing climate, the future of degenerative neurological diseases, the future of human life itself ... some of it might someday depend on these weird cases.
